Jockey Brendan Ward breaks neck in Wagga race fall

By Matt Malone
Updated August 25 2014 - 7:54am, first published 7:00am
Emergency services attend to jockeys Brendan Ward (right), Carly Frater and Andrew Bloomfield after they fell during a race at Wagga's Murrumbidgee Turg Club on Friday. Picture: Michael Frogley
Emergency services attend to jockeys Brendan Ward (right), Carly Frater and Andrew Bloomfield after they fell during a race at Wagga's Murrumbidgee Turg Club on Friday. Picture: Michael Frogley

DOCTORS are confident Canberra jockey Brendan Ward will ride again despite being airlifted to a Sydney hospital with a broken neck following a frightening race fall at Murrumbidgee Turf Club on Friday.

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