# Jockey O'Brien dies aged 39

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8 outlets covering · First listed: Yahoo Sports, Nov 11, 2026, 5:59 AM · Read it: <https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jockey-obrien-dies-aged-39-115928032.html>

Tom O'Brien, the nephew of trainer Aidan, rode more than 1,000 winners and won the Welsh Grand National twice.

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- Nov 10, 2026, 7:23 AM: [French wartime resistance heroine Solange Alexandre dies aged 104](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdx3x7wg941o>) — BBC (Public broadcaster, United Kingdom)
  With 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered Allied airmen and joined the fight against the occupying German forces.
- Nov 10, 2026, 1:42 PM: [Jockey Izzy Neale, 22, dies after her horse falls during race](<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/izzy-neale-dies-jockey-horse-fatal-fall-race-australia/>) — CBS News (TV network, United States)
  Izzy Neale suffered injuries when her horse Marnoo fell and suffered a fatal leg injury in the homestretch of a 1-mile race.
- Nov 10, 2026, 6:15 PM: [Australian jockey, 22, dies after falling during race](<https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/nov/10/22-year-old-australian-jockey-izzy-neale-dies-falling-race/>) — Washington Times (Newspaper, United States)
  An Australian jockey died Tuesday after suffering a critical head injury from falling during a race.
- Nov 11, 2026, 4:31 AM: [Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey O'Brien dies](<https://www.skysports.com/racing/news/12040/13610855/tom-obrien-cheltenham-festival-winning-jockey-dies-aged-39>) — Sky Sports (Sports, United Kingdom)
  Multiple Grade One-winning jockey Tom O’Brien has died at the age of 39.
- Nov 11, 2026, 5:59 AM: [Jockey O'Brien dies aged 39](<https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jockey-obrien-dies-aged-39-115928032.html>) — Yahoo Sports (Sports, United States)
  Tom O'Brien, the nephew of trainer Aidan, rode more than 1,000 winners and won the Welsh Grand National twice.
- Nov 11, 2026, 6:24 AM: [Danny Kelly, beloved broadcaster and View From The Lane presenter, dies aged 69](<https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7773051/2026/11/11/danny-kelly-tribute-tottenham-view-from-the-lane/>) — The Athletic (Sports, United States)
  Kelly presented The Athletic’s Tottenham podcast from August 2021 until March this year, after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.
- Nov 11, 2026, 6:44 AM: [Former BBC radio presenter Kelly dies aged 69](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cmz9dwk90ny7o>) — BBC Sport (Public broadcaster, United Kingdom)
  Former BBC radio presenter Danny Kelly has been described as a "broadcasting titan" following his death at the age of 69.
- Nov 11, 2026, 8:20 AM: [Jockey Tom O’Brien, Cheltenham festival winner, dies aged 39](<https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/nov/11/jockey-tom-obrien-cheltenham-festival-winner-horse-racing-dies-aged-39>) — Guardian (Newspaper, United Kingdom)
  O’Brien rode more than 1,000 winners over jumps‘Tom meant so much to so many people across our sport’Tom O’Brien, who rode more than 1,000 winners over jumps including five Grade Ones and two at the Cheltenham festival, has died at the age of 39 after being diagnosed with cancer.O’Brien, who retired from race riding in April 2023, had a close association with Philip Hobbs’s stable near Minehead throughout his 20-year career in the saddle and enjoyed his most prestigious Grade One victories aboard Hobbs’s Thyme Hill in the Stayers’ Hurdle at Aintree in April 2021 and the Kauto Star Novice…