A fundraiser for jockey Keagan Kirkby has handed £54,000 after he tragically died in a race.
The 25-year-old was killed when his horse bumped into the facet of a soar at a point-to-point race at Charing Racecourse in Kent on 4 February.
He rode for champion coach Paul Nicholls, who mentioned: “It is an unimaginable sum of money.
“It goes to point out the excessive esteem everybody held Keagan in.”
The cash was raised from a JustGiving web page, which was set as much as pay for Kirkby’s funeral and memorial. Cash has since poured in, and at £54,250, far exceeds the preliminary goal of £5,000.
Nicholls instructed BBC Factors West at Kirkby’s house yard in Ditcheat in Somerset that among the cash would go in the direction of giving him a “incredible ship off”, whereas the remaining would go to charities that had been near the jockey’s coronary heart.
Kirby was handled by on-course and air ambulance groups after the accident however was pronounced useless on the scene.
“It was terrible,” Nicholls mentioned. “All people has been in mourning ever since. He labored exhausting and rode effectively.
“Level-to-pointing was one among his hobbies. It’s a tragedy when somebody as younger as this loses their life.”
The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and Level-to-Level Authority pledged to hold out a assessment to see if any classes could possibly be realized.
