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Tributes have been paid to the 'incredibly popular' teenage son of Grand National-winning trainer Henry de Bromhead, after the 13-year-old died in a racing accident in Ireland on Saturday.
Jack de Bromhead suffered fatal injuries after being thrown from his horse at the Glenbeigh Racing Festival in County Kerry.
The racing festival programme was abandoned immediately while fellow trainer Gordon Elliott cancelled Sunday's open day at his yard as a mark of respect.
Emergency services had been called to Rossbeigh beach — where the racing takes place — in Kerry after the incident on Saturday, when De Bromhead’s mount stumbled and ditched the youngster onto the sands.
Horse Racing Ireland's CEO Suzanne Eade shared a message of condolence with the De Bromhead family. She said: 'Like everybody in the horse racing and pony racing community, I want to offer my deepest condolences to his parents Henry and Heather, his sisters Mia and Georgia and extended family, on the tragic loss of their beloved Jack.
'Jack may have been only 13 but he was already incredibly popular in the racing community. His family and friends, his pony racing colleagues and all those who lives he touched are in our thoughts today during this numbing, devastating tragedy.
'Horse Racing Ireland’s equuip department through the Industry Assistance Programme will assist in offering counselling for Jack’s pony racing colleagues and friends. May he rest in peace.'
Jack de Bromhead, the son of Grand National-winning trainer Henry de Bromhead died in a racing accident in Ireland on Saturday. Jack is pictured here at Cahersiveen Pony Races on August 28
The British Horseracing Authority tweeted their 'deepest condolences to the family', while Pony Racing Ireland said it was 'impossible to put into words the sense of grief and loss', and asked people to give the de Bromhead family 'time to mourn'.
There was also a tribute from York racecourse, as jockeys observed a minute's silence ahead of a pony race on Sunday.
A spokesman for the Glenbeigh festival committee told the Irish Mail on Sunday: ‘Many of the members of the Glenbeigh Race Committee are parents themselves and they are devastated at the tragic events.
‘Our heartfelt thoughts go out to the De Bromhead family and their friends.’
Emergency medical attention was provided to the young jockey. But despite desperate efforts to stabilise the teenager he was later pronounced dead.
The son of Henry de Bromhead (above) was fatally injured at Glenbeigh Racing Festival in
