Jockey awarded $13M in damages case
NZPA Miami A circuit court jury has awarded SNZI3 million in damages to a jockey who was paralysed from the neck down after being thrown from a horse last year. The six-member jury, last week found that a track operator had been negligent in designing the race track, causing jockey David Ashcroft's horse to bolt and
throw him on October 31. The suit charged that the spinal-cord injury sustained by Ashcroft, aged 20. was a result of the Calder race track having moved the gap, which was a path leading horses off the track during morning practice. The two-year-old Kentucky Edd, which Ashcroft was riding was believed to have bolted to the rail in search of the gap-
Ashcroft was thrown and another horse. Silver Pro. kicked him in the back of the neck, fracturing his fourth cervic vertebra and paralysing him from the neck down. His lawyers said that the jockey, who was named outstanding apprentice rider-in 1979 by the Florida Turf Riders Association, will need 24-hour nursing care for the rest of his life.
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Press, 13 September 1982, Page 29
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