Jockey Ashlee Mundy dies from fall injuries
Well known jockey Ashlee Mundy has died inwards infirmary from injuries sustained inwards a autumn at the Kurow race coming together yesterday.
She is the outset jockey to get got died inwards New Zealand from injuries suffered inwards a race autumn inwards most nine years.
Westport-born Mundy, 26, Mundy suffered caput injuries when her mount, Elleaye, clipped the heel of the Equus caballus inwards front end as well as cruel approaching the 600-metre rank inwards the 7th race.
She was taken past times helicopter to infirmary inwards Dunedin inwards a critical condition.
New Zealand Jockeys’ Association president Dave Taylor expressed his sorrow on behalf of all jockeys.
“We are deeply saddened past times this tragic accident,” he said.
“All jockeys riding inwards race 7 tomorrow, New Year’s Day, at the 3 meetings – Ellerslie, Hastings as well as Waikouaiti – volition hold out wearing dark arm-bands as well as at that spot volition hold out a minute’s quiet on-course 20 minutes earlier the outset race to rank her passing.”
The Racing Integrity Unit volition hold out conducting a sum review of the incident as well as volition number a study later interviewing all jockeys riding at Kurow.
The police, who attended the meeting, get got likewise begun preparing a study on the incident.
The Health as well as Safety Department inside the Ministry of Business, Innovation as well as Employment has been notified of the incident.
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing main executive Greg Purcell said: “All our thoughts are amongst Ashlee’s household unit of measurement at this terrible time. This is a real distressing twenty-four hours for them as well as for the wider racing community inwards New Zealand.”
Mundy was apprenticed to Michael Pitman inwards Christchurch on March 2, 2004, as well as rode her outset winner the same year, on August 29, 2004, on Starkay at Oamaru.
She rode a sum of 232 winners inwards New Zealand, including 4 black-type races.
She has been riding inwards Commonwealth of Australia for the final few years as well as had ridden 43 winners inwards Queensland.
Her household unit of measurement lives inwards Westport as well as she had returned to New Zealand for a vacation as well as riding, Purcell said.
The final passenger fatality on a race twenty-four hours was that of Sam McRae, who was involved inwards a autumn at Riverton on March 26 ,2004.
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