WE have been in contact recently with Leslie and Frances Young, wife and mother of Banbridge-born jockey Paddy Young who is slowly recovering from the traumatic injuries he suffered in a fall in the National Hunt Cup at the Radnor Hunt meeting in Malvern, Pennsylvania in mid-May.

Between hospital visits, looking after the couple’s two young children, Rory (nine) and Saoirse (eight), and running her yard, Leslie took the time to give us an update on Paddy’s progress.