Sadly, we report that Mallow, Co Cork UCD student Mr Michael O’Sullivan, a 24 year old jockey, who was involved in a pile-up at Thurles Racecourse on February 6th last, has succumbed to his injuries.
This unwelcome news has been confirmed by the International Horse Racing Board (IHRB) early this morning.
A two-time winner at the 2023 Cheltenham Festival; Mr O’Sullivan was one of several jockeys who fell at the final hurdle on the Thurles course; mounted aboard ‘Wee Charlie’, for horse trainer Mr Gerard O’Leary.
He received immediate medical attention at the racetrack before being airlifted to Cork University Hospital, where he was taken into an intensive care unit and placed in a induced coma.
Just shortly before his 25th birthday and surrounded by his family; Mr O’Sullivan passed away just 9 days later.
O’Sullivan shot to prominence in 2023 when winning the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham, seated aboard ‘Marine Nationale’, before then going on to win the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle, same day with ‘Jazzy Matty’.
In ár gcroíthe go deo.
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