Under rules, he carried home almost every major prize restricted to amateurs as well as many others open to professionals after forming a hugely successful partnership with the Bolger yard.
[1] The jockey, from Limerick, was badly hurt when Galaxy Rock, trained locally in Gloucestershire by Jonjo O'Neill, fell at the first fence in the 2013 Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup.
McNamara was flown to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol[2] and was initially kept in an induced coma after recovering from neck surgery.
He was the first jockey to have been paralysed on riding at a British racecourse since Wayne Burton suffered a serious head injury in a fall in Exeter in March 2008.
[5] He suffered complications in July 2016 before being transferred to University Hospital Limerick and then discharged to spend his final days with his family.