A jockey given a nine-week ban for 'reckless riding' over an incident which fatally injured a rival has revealed his devastation at what happened.
Sam Weatherley said he has to live knowing that the "freak accident" led to the death of Taiki Yanagida. Nicknamed 'Tiger', the sportsman fell heavily in a race on August 3 and passed away six days later.
Yanagida, 28, suffered brain and spinal injuries when his horse Te Atatu Pash came down at Cambridge racecourse in New Zealand. The Japanese-born rider was caught underneath the thoroughbred and another runner who could not avoid him in the split-second incident.
