{"id":683288,"date":"2026-01-08T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683288\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:44:12","slug":"jockey-rushed-to-hospital-with-horror-leg-injury-as-races-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/683288\/","title":{"rendered":"Jockey rushed to hospital with horror leg injury as races delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jockey Shane O&#8217;Callaghan was taken to hospital after suffering a &#8216;significant&#8217; leg injury during Thursday&#8217;s racing at Clonmel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He had been on board Boston Fire in the 2.20 at Clonmel, Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A general view at Clonmel Racecourse in Tipperary\" height=\"636\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo-matt-browne-sportsfile-via-1050204364.jpg\" data-caption=\"Thursday's action at Clonmel was delayed after a jockey suffered a horror leg injury\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/photo-matt-browne-sportsfile-via-1050204364.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s action at Clonmel was delayed after a jockey suffered a horror leg injuryCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Callaghan was subsequently sent to hospital for further assessment after being tended to by doctors at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>The Peter Maher-trained horse slipped on the turf.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred after jumping the third to last hurdle in the Monroe Maiden Hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>His injury was described as &#8216;quite significant&#8217; by Racing TV reporter Johnny Ward at the track.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE IN SPORT<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the action was delayed by around 30 minutes as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Lisronagh Handicap Hurdle had been scheduled to get underway at 2.50 but was ultimately pushed back to 3.20.<\/p>\n<p>The Irishman has ridden seven winners on home soil so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent victory came on board Rockbrook in the Supporting Irish Racing Rated Novice Chase at Tramore on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 2.20 at Clonmel was won by the Willie Mullins-trained King Of Aces ahead of Speculateur.<\/p>\n<p>Mullins also saw I Walked The Line claim victory in the 12.50 Rathronan Maiden Hunters Chase in the second race day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A general view prior to racing at Clonmel Racecourse in Tipperary.\" height=\"595\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/general-view-prior-racing-clonmel-1050204363_d09af5.jpg\" data-caption=\"Doctors attended to O'Callaghan at the course before he was taken to hospital\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/general-view-prior-racing-clonmel-1050204363_d09af5.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Doctors attended to O&#8217;Callaghan at the course before he was taken to hospitalCredit: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Following King Of Aces&#8217; win, he said: &#8220;We have been trying to replace Billaway and I had Cause For Comment last year who didn\u2019t quite measure up, so I got this horse and I\u2019m hoping to make him into a Billaway-type horse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll look to a winners\u2019 of one hunters chase next and maybe aim him for the Ladies Cup at Punchestown then and afterwards to Stratford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year, as a six-year-old, I\u2019d hope to work towards Cheltenham.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two further races on the card were able to be completed following the delay to the action.<\/p>\n<p>Those races ended in wins for Our Uncle Jack and The Little Yank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jockey Shane O&#8217;Callaghan was taken to hospital after suffering a &#8216;significant&#8217; leg injury during Thursday&#8217;s racing at Clonmel.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[206989,288,1071,206990,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-683288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-clonmel-racecourse","9":"tag-horse-racing","10":"tag-racing","11":"tag-shane-ocallaghan","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115862140794543127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}