Jim Crowley and Frederik Tylicki airlifted to hospital after four jockeys fall at Kempton race course
Steve Drowne and Ted Durcan limped back to the weighing room as racing was abandoned
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Your support makes all the difference.Racing at Kempton was abandoned following a nasty incident involving four horses and jockeys in the third race of the afternoon.
The accident occurred as the field rounded the home turn in the Breeders Backing Racing EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes.
Nellie Deen was tracking the pacesetting Madame Butterfly in the hands of Frederik Tylicki when the pair suffered a heavy fall.
Jim Crowley and Electrify were racing immediately behind and were brought down, as was Steve Drowne's mount Skara Mae.
Ted Durcan was also caught up in the melee and was unseated from Sovrano Dolce.
Drowne and Durcan returned to the weighing room, albeit walking gingerly, but Tylicki and Crowley were both being attended to on the track.
With racing having already been delayed for over an hour, Racing UK reported that both riders were being taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting, with Tylicki taken by air ambulance and Crowley by road ambulance.
Both riders were taken to the major trauma centre with suspected serious spinal injuries.
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