Jockey dies after Market Rasen fall
Conditional rider Tom Halliday died yesterday from injuries sustained in a fall at Market Rasen during the afternoon.
Halliday was aboard trainer Sue Smith’s Rush’N’Run when the six-year-old fell three out in the Bet With Don Novices’ Handicap Hurdle.
Halliday was attended to straight away by the racecourse doctor and two paramedics. He was taken to Lincoln County Hospital, where a spokeswoman last night said: “He died from his injuries.”
Halliday’s fledgling career had seen him win three hurdle races – the first of which came at Wetherby in December last year – and one National Hunt Flat race.
His death is the first on a racecourse in Britain or Ireland since Sean Cleary died from injuries sustained in a fall at Galway in October 2003.
Halliday is a son of Willie Halliday, a long-standing associate of Sue Smith’s husband Harvey from his showjumping days.
