Jessica Whalley, the 25-year-old who collapsed and died at the racing yard owned by former Liverpool and England footballer Michael Owen, had been riding a filly she “absolutely adored” when tragedy struck on Tuesday.
Her boss Hugo Palmer said she had just completed her latest exercise on the three-year-old horse when she came out of the saddle and fell to the ground at Owen’s Manor House Stables in Malpas, Cheshire.
Emergency services were called to the yard at 7.36am but paramedics were unable to save Whalley, a former beauty queen, whose death is not being treated as suspicious by Cheshire Police.
