Kieran Kelly (jockey)

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Kieran Kelly (25 June 1978 – 12 August 2003) was an Irish jump jockey who died as a result of a racing accident.{{cite news |title=Kieran Kelly Obituary |first=Richard |last=Griffiths |newspaper=The Independent |date=15 August 2003 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kieran-kelly-548591.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404064506/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kieran-kelly-548591.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 April 2009 |accessdate=8 November 2010}}

Kelly was born in County Kildare and achieved his first Cheltenham Festival success in March 2003 on Hardy Eustace in the Royal & SunAlliance Novices' Hurdle.{{cite web |title= Results from the 2.00 race at Cheltenham 12 March 2003 |publisher= Racing Post |url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/11/cheltenham/2003-03-12/326816 |accessdate=8 November 2010}}

He was critically injured in a fall in on 8 August 2003 at Kilbeggan racecourse and remained on life support in Beaumont Hospital in north Dublin. He died four days later at the age of 25.{{cite news |title=Cruel fate of the addicted |first=Michael |last=Clower |newspaper=The Times |date=17 August 2003 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article874945.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926085526/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article874945.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 September 2011 |accessdate=8 November 2010}}