Thurles Co. Tipperary – Race Meeting Abandoned.

This afternoon, racing here at Thurles, Co. Tipperary was abandoned following an injury sustained by jockey Mr Michael O’Sullivan in a fall at the final fence.

Mr O’Sullivan was riding ‘Wee Charlie’ for Mr Gerard O’Leary in the second race on the card.
He was one of three fallers at the last fence in the two mile ‘Racing Again February 20th Handicap Chase’. Two other horses were badly hampered, having unseated their riders.

Mr O’Sullivan was treated on the track before being stabilised and brought to Cork Reginal Hospital by air ambulance.

Initially racing was deferred, before eventually being abandoned at around 3:30pm, by race day stewards, due to the prevailing medical situation.
Mr O’Sullivan shot to prominence back in 2023, having won the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham aboard ‘Marine Nationale’.
His second winner at Cheltenham that year, making it an opening-day double came with his win on ‘Jazzy Matty’; riding for Gordon Elliott.