An amateur jockey remained under sedation in intensive care in Bristol yesterday (Monday, April 11) after falling during the races at Wincanton on Sunday.
Major Charlie O’Shea, who served with 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery and won both the Royal Artillery Gold Cup and the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown aboard Rolling Dylan earlier this year, had three rides at the Somerset venue. He is said to have suffered “serious chest injuries” in the fall, and racing was abandoned with reports of at least one air ambulance landing.
Having finished third in two earlier races, he was unseated at the second fence in the New John Dufosee Novices’ Hunters’ Chase, the penultimate race, where he was riding Paudie. O’Shea was treated on the track for some time before being transferred to Southmead Hospital in Bristol, and Wincanton officials abandoned racing before the concluding bumper.
