Young jockey run over by ambulance after kick in the face

Spills as well as thrills are the daily trials of a professional jockey but when the ambulance sent to help you after a fall parks on your leg — that’s a horse of a different colour.

“You have to laugh really,” said Northern Ireland rider Chris Meehan, as he recalled the double-whammy he experienced during a race in Italy.

He wasn’t laughing last Sunday, though, when the racecourse ambulance coming to his aid after he was kicked in the face by a horse ran over his leg, breaking it in one spot and dislocating it in another.