British National Hunt jockey Felix De Giles has suffered devastating injuries in a fall that will prevent him from challenging for this season’s champion rider title.

De Giles, 36, began his career at Nicky Henderson’s Seven Barrows yard in Lambourn before moving to France in 2015.

There, he has steadily built a successful career, culminating in 2023 when he won the French jump racing championship with 92 winners.

This season, he was on course to repeat the feat, already racking up 71 wins and more than €2.7m in prize money.

That all changed last Sunday at Auteuil, the French equivalent of Cheltenham, during the Prix Jack Barbe hurdle race when De Giles suffered catastrophic injuries after falling from his horse, Sunny Swing.

De Giles was mid-field in a bunched 18-runner race when Sun

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