Cooper break ‘the worst I have ever seen’

The Turf Club’s chief medical officer yesterday described Bryan Cooper’s leg break as “the worst fracture I have ever seen in a lower limb”.

The Tralee jockey suffered the horror injury when falling two out whilst on the Gordon Elliott-trained Clarcam in the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle on Wednesday.

“It’s what we call a compound fracture,” said Dr Adrian McGoldrick yesterday. “It came through the skin, but there were multiple fragments, which is the nature of a fall at that speed. It’s very much like you see with motorcyclists who come off motorbikes at high speed.”