Graham Lee, the Grand National-winning jockey, is in intensive care after suffering a neck injury in a fall at Newcastle on Friday evening. The 47-year-old was unseated from his mount Ben Macdui as the stalls opened for a five-furlong handicap race on the all-weather track.
Lee was taken by ambulance to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, where he remains in intensive care. The Injured Jockeys Fund confirmed he will undergo further tests to assess the extent of the injury.
Lee, from Galway, has had a distinguished career riding under both codes. He won the 2004 Grand National on Amberleigh House for Ginger McCain and enjoyed a successful partnership with staying hurdler Inglis Drever, winning the 2005 World Hurdle at Cheltenham. He also rode Grade One winners Another Promise and Kalahari King for Ferdy Murphy.
After repeated injury problems in jump racing, Lee switched to the Flat in 2012, winning Group One races with Trip To Paris in the 2015 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot and Alpha Delphini in the 2018 Nunthorpe Stakes. His best Flat season was 2014, when he rode 159 winners; he has 47 victories this campaign.
