Trainer Williams in coma

Lambourn trainer Dai Williams is on life support systems and in a coma after suffering a heart attack on Monday.

The 51-year-old complained of feeling unwell as he saddled up to go hunting, near Brighton, in Sussex, and asked for an ambulance.

He was unconscious when medics arrived, and has remained in a coma in Brighton’s Royal Sussex County Hospital since.

The former jockey, who suffered strokes in 1993 and 2001, trained for 30 years, initially under permit until taking out a full licence in 1988.

He had scaled down his operation in recent months and his Hillside Stud is due to be taken over by trainer Michael Attwater within the next few weeks.

Williams' best-known horses are Folly Road, runner-up to Beau in the 2000 Whitbread Gold Cup, Symbol Of Success, Yorkshire, Noyan, Toskano and Mr Cospector.