Ortiz was on the lead aboard first-time starter Equal Pay for trainer Chad Brown when the 3-year-old Quality Road filly appeared to take a bad step. He is named to ride in nine races on Friday at Belmont and in all 13 races on Saturday's stakes-filled program at Belmont, including aboard Known Agenda in the featured Belmont Stakes. was sent to a local hospital Thursday after he was unseated in the stretch of the fifth race at Belmont Park and clipped by a trailing horse. Ortiz was taken off his remaining three mounts on Thursday. 7 and was injured when the 4-year-old filly became fractious in the gates. She was gathered by an outrider and "walked home," according to Belmont Park officials. was aboard Shea On a Mission ( Mission Impazible) in Hallandale Jan. According to Richard Migliore of America's Day at the Races, Jose relayed that Irad had "some cuts and contusions because he was clipped by one of the trailing horses," but that he "was moving and talking."Įqual Pay appeared to gather herself after the incident and crossed the wire first while rider-less. Jose Ortiz, Irad's brother, and fellow jockey Junior Alvarado both rushed to the side of the fallen rider as he laid on the track. is out of the Belmont Stakes after a scary fall while racing but seems to have escaped long-term injury. Ortiz was subsequently stretchered to the on-site ambulance and sent to North Shore Community Hospital for further evaluation, agent Steve Rushing told Horse Racing Nation.Īccording to the public relations team at Belmont Park, Ortiz was "awake and alert, moving all extremities." Irad Ortiz taken off the track on a stretcher and then to a. Ortiz was thrown off a horse during a race Thursday at Belmont Park and then trampled by the horse being ridden by younger brother Jose. Jockeys arent human Watch Irad Ortiz somehow roll out of harms way in the nick of time after this scary moment at Belmont Park in New York.He got up and r. Ortiz was on the lead aboard first-time starter Equal Pay for trainer Chad Brown when the 3-year-old Quality Road filly appeared to take a bad step. is out of the Belmont Stakes after a scary fall while racing but seems to have escaped long-term injury.
was sent to a local hospital Thursday after he was unseated in the stretch of the fifth race at Belmont Park and clipped by a trailing horse.
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