Young jockey injured
PA Timaru The promising apprentice jockey, Nigel Milne, of Mosgiel, is seriously ill in the intensive-care unit at Timaru Hospital after the car he was in struck a bridge on State highway 1 5 km south of Timaru on Friday evening. Milne suffered serious head and chest injuries and multiple fractures. He was on his way to Christchurch to ride in the Grand National meeting at Riccarton on Saturday. Another person in the car. whose name was. not available, was admitted to hospital but his injuries are not serious.
■ Milne rode 10 winners last season in his first year of riding and was showing promise as an apprentice. He is from Mosgiel and rides for Arthur and Leslie Didham’s Wingatui stable.
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