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Jockey Lorna Brooke dies aged 37 following injuries suffered in fall at Taunton

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Jockey Lorna Brooke has died in hospital following treatment for injuries sustained in a fall on the racecourse. The amateur rider passed away yesterday, the Injured Jockeys' Fund said in a statement.

Brooke, 37, had been placed in an induced coma with 'significant' swelling on her brain on Friday. Riding Orchestrated, a horse trained by her mother Lady Susan Brooke, she fell at the third fence of Taunton's Pontispool Equine Sports Centre Handicap Chase on April 8.

Brooke was given immediate assistance by medics before being taken to hospital in an air ambulance. In a statement on Monday, a spokesperson for the Injured Jockeys' Fund said: “It is with deep sadness that we have to share the tragic news that Lorna Brooke passed away

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