Veteran amateur jockey Trevor Radford has died two months after he was seriously injured in a fall at a Sussex racecourse.

The 64-year-old, one of the oldest jockeys to have ridden in Britain since the comeback of Lester Piggott, had been fighting for life since falling in an amateur riders' event at Goodwood, near Chichester, in August.

Injured Jockeys' Fund chairman Lord Oaksey said: "It is very sad. He had seemed to be on the way back, so to speak.

"He wasn't talking but he had communicated with his family and they were pretty hopeful.

"But he died at six o'clock yesterday in Guildford Hospital, where he had been since the fall."

Radford, who retired from his job as a car mechanic at a motor dealers in Guildford just a fortnight before his accident, had been intending to retire after the Goodwood race.

He leaves a wife, a son and a daughter.