Kelly in intensive care after fall

Leading Irish jump jockey Kieran Kelly is heavily sedated in intensive care in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin after suffering serious head injuries in a fall at Kilbeggan on Friday evening.

Leading Irish jump jockey Kieran Kelly is heavily sedated in intensive care in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin after suffering serious head injuries in a fall at Kilbeggan on Friday evening.

Kelly, who had earlier won the Foster And Allen (Mares) Maiden Hurdle on Barrack Buster, was riding the Dessie Hughes-trained Balmy Native in the Joe Cooney Memorial Handicap Chase when the horse fell at the fifth fence from home.

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