This was sent in by a reader. It’s out of the Stockton, Calif., Record:
Former jockey David Fowler-Wright died in a gate accident at the Stockton fair in Northern California on Sunday.
Fowler-Wright, 47, reportedly was working as a rake man, smoothing over tire tracks from the starting gate, but he was riding on the gate when the accident occurred during the seventh race. According to the Stockton Record, Fowler-Wright either slipped off the gate or tried to jump off and fell, and he was run over by either the gate or the tractor that pulls it.
Fowler-Wright died at San Joaquin General Hospital.
Between 2001 and ’07, Fowler-Wright rode at many tracks across the West and at Thistledown and Mountaineer Race Track. He recorded four stakes wins at Grants Pass in 2007.
From 406 career mounts, Fowler-Wright posted 45 victories.
