Ana O’Brien in hospital after fall

Ana O’Brien, the jockey daughter of champion trainer Aidan, has been taken to hospital by air ambulance after a fall at Killarney.

The 21-year-old was quickly attended to after her mount Druids Cross, trained by her brother, Joseph, slipped up over two furlongs (400m) from the end of his race on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST).

The three-year-old Druids Cross was fatally injured while O’Brien was taken off the track in an ambulance before being transferred to hospital in Cork by the Irish Coast Guard air ambulance.

O’Brien has ridden in both the English and Irish Derbys for her father this season and partnered her first winner as a 16-year-old at Dundalk in February, 2013.

“She was conscious leaving the track and was airlifted to Cork University Hospital,” clerk of the course Val O’Connell said.

Credit: PAA

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