‘Such a shame’ as promising jockey forced to retire aged 23 on ‘medical advice’

PROMISING jockey Gearoid Harney has been forced to retire from racing aged just 23 on ‘medical advice’.

The conditional rider ‘kept getting concussed’ when he fell and suffered a heavy crash at Fakenham in January.

Jockey Gearoid Harney has been forced to retire aged just 23Alamy

Harney was rushed to hospital for urgent care and racing was abandoned soon after his slip from David Pipe’s Micronormous.

Unfortunately, while he made a recovery from that incident, doctors had advised him to stop racing altogether.