Racing NSW postpones Scone meeting as Izzy Neale remains in critical condition

Racing NSW has postponed Monday’s meeting at Scone after consulting the jockeys and trainers engaged to take part, following apprentice Izzy Neale’s serious fall at Warren on Sunday.

“Izzy remains in Dubbo Hospital in a critical condition, with her family by her side,” Racing NSW said when it announced the postponement. No replacement date has been announced for the Scone programme.

Neale was riding Marnoo in Race 6 at Warren, the Warren Shire Cotton Cup over 1600 metres, when she and Diego Montes de Oca, aboard Shadow Dane, were dislodged at about the 400-metre mark.

Neale was airlifted to hospital, and Montes de Oca was taken to Dubbo by ambulance with a suspected broken left foot.

Marnoo was euthanised after an injury to the near foreleg, and stewards called off the final race on the Warren card.

Neale is a claiming apprentice employed by Dubbo trainer Brett Robb. She was raised at Merriwa and rode trackwork at Muswellbrook before spending two years at Scone before moving to Sydney and later Dubbo.

She won on her first race ride, Scruff’s Magic at the Condobolin picnics in February 2024, and has ridden 88 winners across New South Wales, 16 of them at the picnics.