Jose ortiz jockey spill at gulfstream park
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Jose Ortiz will not ride Saturday at Saratoga after Friday spill
Jockey Jose Ortiz took off his mounts at Saratoga on Friday after a spill at the wire in the day's first race, and he will be off his mounts Saturday as well.
Ortiz will not ride Saturday at Saratoga according to a Saturday morning Tweet by David Grening of Daily Racing Form, though Grening also noted that Ortiz was feeling better than expected. Ortiz had been named on 11 horses at Saratoga on Saturday, including Poppy Flower in the Caress. Equibase published jockey changes late Saturday morning and Jose Lezcano was named on Poppy Flower.
Same Old Fears, a 2-year-old Uncle Mo filly bred, owned and trained by Wesley Ward, was part of a pack of horses racing four abreast down the lane in Friday's Saratoga opener. Just as they were about to cross the wire the first-time starter veered out, clipped heels with 7-10 favorite Foxhole and tumbled head first at the line. Ortiz was pitched forward and somersaulted before he and the other horses left the screen on the pan shot provided by NYRA TV.
According to a Tweet from Keith McCalmont of NYRA, Ortiz got up after the spill, but was taken to Albany Medical Center for evaluation.
Acacia Clement later reported on the Saratoga Live broadcast that X-rays came
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'Feeling 100 percent,' jockey Jose Ortiz returning at Churchill Downs
Jockey Jose Ortiz, injured in a February spill at Gulfstream Park, is "feeling 100 percent" and will return this month at Churchill downs, his agent, Jimmy Riccio, said Sunday.
Ortiz suffered a fractured wrist when he was thrown during a post parade on Feb. 22. He got back in the saddle on March 14, but his wrist was still sore, Riccio said, and the 2017 Eclipse Award winner needed more time.
"Then corona happened, so he just didn't rush back."
Ortiz is married to Taylor Rice, who is part of a longtime racing family, and they have been staying at the family farm in Ocala, Fla.
"They have a bunch of horses on the farm down there, so he's been getting on," Riccio said.
Churchill Downs announced last week that it would begin racing, without spectators, on May 16.
"That's where he's heading," Riccio said of Ortiz. "He's ready to go, feeling 100 percent. Just kind of was waiting for New York or Kentucky to open to start back."
Ortiz's brother, reigning Eclipse Award winner Irad Ortiz Jr., also took off from racing for about a month because of the coronavirus pandemic. He returned to racing at Gulfstream Park on April 25.
Jose Ortiz claimed his own riding title for the 2017 season. This year, he
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Jockey Jose Ortiz to keep knee surgical procedure, will make mincemeat of six weeks
David Grening | Daily Enthuse Form
Jose Ortiz, a eminent contender lack the Shroud Award chimpanzee North America's outstanding chicane, will lease minor joint surgery school assembly Dec. 5 and avoid at minimal six weeks of advance, his emissary, Jim Riccio Jr., alleged Wednesday.
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