Very sad news...Darren Beadman, one of the greatest jockeys of them all, has had to call it quits. Beadman, 46, made the announcement on Sunday. The Hall of Fame jockey has been bravely trying to recover from injuries sutained in a barrier trial fall in Hong Kong in February. He damaged neurons and nerves when suffering a diffuse-axonal brain injury, which affects balance, speech and memory. "As Kim my wife said to me 'sometimes the hardest decisions in life are made for us'," Beadman
Very sad news...Darren Beadman, one of the greatest jockeys of them all, has had to call it quits. Beadman, 46, made the announcement on Sunday. The Hall of Fame jockey has been bravely trying to recover from injuries sutained in a barrier trial fall in Hong Kong in February. He damaged neurons and nerves when suffering a diffuse-axonal brain injury, which affects balance, speech and memory. "As Kim my wife said to me 'sometimes the hardest decisions in life are made for us'," Beadman said."After the fall everything was up in the air and you don't know what the future holds, there's so many grey areas and I probably only had another few years..."Really the decision was made for me and since I've come to live with it I've started to get better. It's made life so much easier and I'm getting on with my rehab which is going great."