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Jockey McNamara paralysed after Cheltenham

Bristol

Saturday 30 March 2013, 11:50am

A doctor says Irish jockey JT McNamara is paralysed but in good spirits after his fall from a horse at the Cheltenham Festival.

Dr Adrian McGoldrick, senior medical officer of the Irish Turf Club, says in a statement released Friday by the Injured Jockeys Fund that the 37-year-old McNamara is still hospitalised in Bristol, but is hoping to be transferred to Dublin "in due course".

The statement says McNamara "suffered a serious neck injury resulting in paralysis," but that "he has made progress in the last week and is in a very positive frame of mind".

McNamara fractured two vertebrae in his neck after coming off Galaxy Rock in a race at the festival this month.

– AP

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