Apprentice Paralyzed
Charles Town apprentice Shannon Campbell was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident on Saturday night (Daily Racing Form). It was an accident at another West Virginia track last year that left jockey Gary Birzer paralyzed and sparked the jockeys’ insurance dispute last fall, which resulted in several tracks raising jockeys’ insurance coverage to $1 million. Charles Town, amazingly, wasn’t among that group. Its insurance remains capped at $100,000 $50,000. Campbell’s colleagues will be meeting with Jockeys’ Guild representatives to discuss setting up a fund to cover her medical bills.
