Ruby Walsh, the most successful jockey in Cheltenham Festival history, will miss the remainder of this year’s meeting and possibly the rest of the 2017-18 jumps season after aggravating a recent leg injury in a fall on the second day of the Festival meeting on Wednesday.
Walsh, who missed four months of this campaign after breaking his leg in a fall at Punchestown in November, was riding Al Boum Photo in the second race, the RSA Novice Chase. His mount hit the second-last fence and fell, and then appeared to roll on to Walsh’s leg.
Walsh was shielded from the grandstands by sightscreens as he received first aid for several minutes, and the concern of his family was clear as his father, mother and two sisters all hurried down the course towards the second-last. Walsh needed considerable support to make his way to a waiting ambulance, and was then taken to Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary to have an X-ray.
Source :- theguardian
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