Ruby Walsh: Jack Kennedy’s resilience will see him through again

I know there is nothing anybody can say to a sportsperson in Jack Kennedy's position because nobody can give them what they want - which is not to be injured - but I wanted to check on him
Ruby Walsh: Jack Kennedy’s resilience will see him through again

Navan 7-11-21

As I left Navan last Sunday after racing, Jack Kennedy was stretchered into an ambulance at the back of the weighroom. He had taken another crunching fall, this time from the ill-fated Wide Receiver, and dislocated his right shoulder.

Before they departed for whatever A&E they were going to, I jumped into the back of that ambulance and wished him luck on his recovery, but more so to talk to him. I know there is nothing anybody can say to a sportsperson in his position because nobody can give them what they want - which is not to be injured - but I wanted to check on him.

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