Katie runs gamut of emotions as brother Ruby is left broken

There is nothing unusual about the sight of tears in the winner’s enclosure here at Prestbury Park, but Katie Walsh’s were prompted by a contrasting pair of emotions yesterday as she reflected on her first festival winner at this festival in seven years.

A top amateur jockey with a bag of high-profile wins in the last six years, Walsh partnered Relegate to victory in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper a little over three hours after watching brother Ruby being helped into an ambulance after a punishing fall.

Ruby had been on board Al Boum Photo in the RSA Chase when he came crashing down.