Name Kieran Kelly | Role Jockey | |
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Died August 12, 2003, Beaumont, Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
Kieran Kelly (25 June 1978 – 12 August 2003) was a top Irish jump jockey who died as a result of a racing accident.
Kelly was born in County Kildare and achieved his first Cheltenham Festival success in March 2003 on Hardy Eustace in the Royal & SunAlliance Novices' Hurdle.
He was critically injured in a fall in on 8 August 2003 at Kilbeggan racecource and remained on life support in Beaumont Hospital in north Dublin. He died four days later at the age of 25.
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