Great to honour Lorna Brooke - but we owe racing's fallen a permanent monument

How good it was to see Fairyhouse remember Lorna Brooke on Tuesday with a race named in her honour. It was a poignant and fitting tribute by the racecourse where the amateur rider, who lost her life at the age of 37 in April following a fall at Taunton, scored the biggest win of her career.

Brooke deserves to be remembered this year, and for many more to come. She paid the ultimate price for her love of the sport, with its inherent danger as well as excitement, and she should remain in the thoughts not just of her fellow riders and racing professionals but also the racing public.

As Evan Williams, one of the trainers she won for, said at the time of her death: "Racing is built on hard-working people with a passion for horses like Lorna. She was what makes this sport great. It's not just about the big prizes at big meetings, it's about the Lornas of this world."