Freddy Tylicki has been partly paralysed by the shocking four-horse fall in which he was involved at Kempton on Monday. The news, released on Friday night by the Injured Jockeys Fund, ends hopes nursed through the week that he might somehow have avoided serious injury in the same way as Jim Crowley, who was involved in the same incident and also rushed to hospital but emerged with only a broken nose.

Tylicki proved less fortunate. The IJF described him as having suffered “a T7 paralysis, which means he has movement in the upper half of his body but not his lower”. The 30-year-old has undergone surgery to his spine during the last few days. The Fund said in a statement: “Freddy remains in intensive care and is not receiving any visitors for the foreseeable future. His family would like to thank the staff of St George’s [hospital in Tooting] for the care he has received. As this is a very difficult time for Freddy and his family, they would like to thank everyone for their good wishes and for continuing to respect their privacy.”

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Tylicki, the champion apprentice of 2009, had enjoyed a breakthrough year, winning a Group One race for the first time aboard Speedy Boarding in the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville in August and following up in the Prix de l’Opera at Chantilly on Arc weekend. He was also given his first ride in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe itself, finishing eighth on Savoir Vivre, who had taken him within inches of German Derby success in July.

“It’s tragic news,” said James Fanshawe, the Newmarket-based trainer of Speedy Boarding. “For the past three seasons, he’s ridden out here twice a week, every week. He’s been a major part of the team, a real help to the yard and it was very noticeable on Wednesday that he wasn’t here.

“This has been such a good year for him, with the two Group Ones, and he twice rode the most fantastic races in France. I thought he also rode a brilliant race when Speedy Boarding was second at Ascot on Champions Day. All of that will make this even harder for him personally.

“We’ve been thinking of him all week and we’ll be doing everything we possibly can to help in his recovery. Everyone in the yard sends our best wishes to Freddy and his family.” Asked about Tylicki’s character, Fanshawe said: “He’s tough and he’s always been ambitious but he’s a lovely guy as well. First and foremost, he’s talented but he showed toughness as well when he came back from a bad fall the year after he was champion apprentice.

“He’s been playing snakes and ladders all his life, really. But he’s a tremendous character and I’m sure that will help in the battle he has ahead of him.”

The leading Irish trainer Jim Bolger had Tylicki at his Carlow yard for three years when the rider was a teenager just setting out in the game, newly relocated from his native Germany, where his father had been champion jockey three times. “Jackie and I and all our staff are devastated at the news,” Bolger said. “Obviously, we’re hoping that it’s not final and in time he might improve.

“It’s a terrible blow for any person, especially at the age he’s at. He had a great career in front of him and he’d done really well in the last few years. No one was more pleased than I was that he was able to put his time here with Dermot Weld and myself behind him and get on with the business of becoming a proper jockey!”

Bolger’s Pleascach was second to Speedy Boarding when Tylicki won at Chantilly this autumn. “I regret very much not getting to see him after that but they stopped me from getting into the winner’s enclosure,” the trainer said.

“He’s a lovely man, I was really fond of him. He arrived in Ireland as a young boy without a word of English and taught himself. In a few years, you wouldn’t have known it wasn’t his first language. He was very determined to become a jockey. He really blossomed in his early 20s, quite late for a jockey, but he was certainly making up for lost time. I’d like to wish him the very best.”

Ed Vaughan, a Newmarket trainer who shared some successes with Tylicki this year, also spoke highly of the jockey’s qualities. “I’ve been checking with his agent every day since the fall and I feared the worst, but it still comes as a great shock,” he said. “He’s been such an asset to us and he’s such a pleasant, hard-working guy as well. He was just getting the opportunities he deserved and to see his career shot down like this as well as everything else … I’m shocked and deeply saddened. He’s a bright, intelligent, hard-working lad and I’m sure he’ll still be involved in racing in some way.”

Tylicki’s colleagues tweeted their support for him, including Cam Hardie, another apprentice star of recent seasons, who said: “Good luck Freddy, we’re all behind you and here for you. Couldn’t have happened to such a talented jockey going places. Stay strong!”

Hayley Turner, who was also champion apprentice and rode Group One winners before retiring last year, tweeted: “The risk of racing made real. With our help, support and Freddy’s strength, he will get through this. Sending our positive thoughts.”