Champion flat jockey Jim Crowley and 2009 champion apprentice Frederik Tylicki remained hospitalised on Monday night after being injured in a four-horse incident at Kempton that ultimately saw the meeting abandoned. The accident occurred as the field rounded the home turn in the Breeders Backing Racing EBF Maiden Fillies' S., the third race on the card.
Nellie Deen (Ire) (Dream Ahead) was tracking the pacesetting Madame Butterfly (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}) in the hands of Tylicki when the pair suffered a heavy fall. Crowley and Electrify (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) were racing immediately behind and were brought down, as was Steve Drowne's mount Skara Mae (Ire)(Canford Cliffs {Ire}). Ted Durcan was also caught up in the melee and was unseated from Sovrano Dolce (Ire) (Roderic O'Connor {Ire}).
Both Drowne and Durcan returned to the weighing room, albeit walking gingerly, but Tylicki and Crowley were attended to on the track for some time before being taken to the major trauma unit at St George's Hospital in Tooting. A spokesman for the hospital could offer no update on the condition of either rider this evening, but Kempton clerk of the course Barney Clifford had earlier said both riders had suffered suspected spinal injuries.
Clifford told Racing UK, “Both jockeys have gone to St George's in Tooting for further investigation. Freddy Tylicki was airlifted and Jim Crowley has gone by road ambulance. They both are on spinal boards. They both give their consent to me and the doctor to update their next of kin, family members etc. I can't say any more than that at this stage.”
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