Paralysed Freddy Tylicki back on a horse for first time since horrific fall at Kempton four months ago

IT is a sight to warm any sports fan’s heart.

Brave Freddy Tylicki gets back in the saddle for the first time since a horrific fall at Kempton four months ago left him paralysed.

His mum Irene and sister Madeleine came with him for the ride.

Tylicki beamed: “It’s great to be on a horse again.”

The 30-year-old sustained a T7 paralysis, which means he has movement in the upper half of his body but not his lower, when he fell from Nellie Deen in a four-horse pile-up at Kempton on October 31.

Tylicki, who remains in the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre, in Stanmore, was looking forward to planned riding lesson to help his rehabilitation.

He said: “I started riding racehorses when I was 11 or 12 years of age and it’s like a drug – once you start with it you just can’t stop.

“Somehow, life goes on again, you’ve got to make the most of it and roll on.”

Tylicki had last year been an emerging force in the weighing room, having claimed a first Group One victory aboard the James Fanshawe-trained Speedy Boarding at Deauville in the summer.

He then secured a second top-level Flat triumph when the same filly won the Prix de l’Opera on Arc weekend at Chantilly in October.

Tylicki has still not watched a replay of his Kempton fall and has no intention of doing so.

He added: “Apparently it was a horrible fall, I haven’t seen it. I was there, so there’s no point looking at it again.

“In some ways I’m lucky to be here.”