Apprentice dies
NZPA-AAP Ballarat The apprentice jockey Mark Johnston, aged 19, who received severe head injuries in a fall at the Ballarat races on Thursday, died in Royal Melbourne Hospital yesterday afternoon, a hospital spokesman said.
Johnston was riding 331 chance Revelations, which fell soon after the start in the J. P. Slattery Handicap (1400 m He was attended to on the track for almost half an hour by the course doctor and ambulance officials before being taken by ambulance to Ballarat Base Hospital, where he was given a brain scan.
Later he was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s intensive care unit
A hospital spokesman said Johnston died at 1.30 p.m. but had no further comment.
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