Mark Bradburne

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Poor bastard hasn't had much luck with injuries these last few seasons, wishing him all the best and hope his operation goes well. Mark is a great lad and very much an under-rated jockey being a horseman who will carry out instructions to the letter, as well as give a decent opinion after.

From the RP :

Bradburne "not brilliant" after spinal injury

BY DAVID CARR 5:43PM 12 APR 2010

JOCKEY Mark Bradburne is due to move hospitals for an operation on his back on Tuesday after suffering a spinal injury in a fall at Kelso.

Bradburne was visited on Monday by his mother Sue, a trainer in Fife, who said last night: "He is not brilliant. He is going to Glasgow tomorrow to have an operation. He's done the T6 vertebra and there are fragments of bone floating around.

"We have just been to see him and, in himself, he is not too bad, but he is in a degree of discomfort."

Bradburne had been riding his mother's Soldiers Tree, who unseated him at the first flight of a hurdle race.
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You're right, he's a lovely guy. Met him when visiting Alastair Lidderdale's pretty little yard, and watched him schooling. Smashing hands and very alert to the way a horse likes to be handled. Proper rider. This is a wretched blow for him - I think 'a degree of discomfort' is probably a mastery of understatement!
 
Shadow Leader said:
Poor bastard hasn't had much luck with injuries these last few seasons, wishing him all the best and hope his operation goes well. Mark is a great lad and very much an under-rated jockey being a horseman who will carry out instructions to the letter, as well as give a decent opinion after.

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That's a bugger - it's the second time he's done the T6 vertebra after doing the same thing (broke 6th and 7th vertebrae) at Uttoxeter about three years ago. Hope he's ok - will try to get some news.
 
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