Kinane remains in critical condition

CHRIS KINANE, assistant trainer to Ian Williams, remains in a critical condition after receiving a kick to the head in the parade ring at Wolverhampton's meeting on Saturday night.

The 48-year-old was knocked unconscious and was taken initially to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton, but later on Saturday night was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

He underwent an operation and is now being looked after in the hospital’s neuro-critical care unit. A spokesman confirmed his condition today as “critical”. Williams said: “As far as I know he is still stable, but very poorly.”

Kinane was in the process of legging up Jamie Spencer to ride the yard’s runner Not Amused in the Great Entertainment At Dunstall Park Handicap when he was kicked by another horse.

He joined Williams’s West Midlands stable in 2001, having previously been private trainer of the late Geoff Hubbard’s horses.

He saddled Strong Promise to finish third in the 2000 Cheltenham Gold Cup, and also spent a number of years working for Guy Harwood and Josh Gifford.

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