Most successful ever Czech jockey Filip Minařík dies at 48

The most decorated Czech jockey of all time, Filip Minařík, has died at the age of 48. Minařík was a four-time German horseracing champion and won almost 1,800 races until a career-ending injury in 2020, after which he was placed in an artificial coma for four months.

The jockey’s death has been announced by Czech and German horseracing news sites and there have been reports that he committed suicide after suffering from severe depression.

Minařík, whose first race was in 1991, had followed in the footsteps of his father Ferdinand Minařík, also a successful jockey.