Jose on Thursday night tweeted a photo of his older brother with a bandage around his left wrist and a message indicating Irad’s X-rays were negative and that he would be back in a couple of weeks. “He got four stitches on his arm and six on his head, but he’s doing, really, really good. “It didn’t look very good at all,” Jose Ortiz told the Associated Press on Friday. Irad Ortiz was taken off the track on a stretcher and then to a local hospital before being released. 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. is out of the Belmont Stakes after a scary fall while racing but seems to have escaped long-term injury. 15, with the Belmont at Aqueduct meeting.NEW YORK - Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. New York resumes racing downstate on Thursday, Sept.
He collected more than $1.8 million in purse earnings. His easy to spot red and white racing silks were seen in the winners’ circle 16 times. Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables won the top owners award for the fifth straight time. “That was a great moment for me personally,” he said.
“The three Grade I’s are on the top - and the Diana with the first four finishers,” Brown said. Allen Jerkens Memorial sprint with Jack Christopher and the Ballerina with Good Night Olive with Ortiz aboard. He followed that race with Grade I victories in the H. As icing on the cake, Brown also saddle the next three finishers in the Diana. The Mechanicville native and Saratoga Springs resident opened his stakes campaign with a Grade I win in the Diana Stakes with In Italian. Allen Jerkens trophy as leading trainer for the fourth consecutive time and fifth overall with a total 42, six more than Todd Pletcher.īrown did not allow legal difficulties incurred in mid-August to interfere with his fifth Spa training title. We tallied the votes from this year’s Best of the Capital Region contest in 100 categories.īrown won the H. When asked about winning the riding title, Ortiz said, “It’s amazing every time you have a chance to win a meet here. Ortiz has ridden more than 3,700 winners with purse earnings of $252 million. The road to Ortiz’s Saratoga championship began on opening day when he won the Grade II Schuylerville Stakes aboard Just Cindy.Ī week later, he won the first of five Grade I races with Nest in the Coaching Club American Oaks, Life is Good in the Whitney, Nest again in the Alabama, Goodnight Olive in the Ballerina Handicap and Forte in the closing day’s Hopeful. His win total for 2022 Saratoga was 55 races, 15 more than his closest pursuers, Flavien Prat and Luis Saez. His win as leading rider was his fourth at the Spa. Ortiz stepped into the winner's circle to accept the award from his boyhood idol, Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero Jr. The awards for outstanding achievement were made to jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., trainer Chad Brown and Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables. Unsuitable weather and footing conditions forced 16 races off the turf and onto the main track.
The racing numbers were 417 races run, 218 on the main track and 199 on the turf. “This summer’s record handle, increasing strong attendance and the highest ever viewership on Fox Sports demonstrates the enduring and expanding appeal of Saratoga Race Course,” said Dave O’Rourke, NYRA’s President and CEO. The daily paid attendance figure this year, despite a punishing early-meet heat wave, was 26,890. That number marks the seventh consecutive season when attendance topped the million mark - exclusive of 2020 when the gates were closed due to COVID-19. That was 10 percent better than 2021.ġ.075 million fans accounted for the paid attendance.
On-track handle, a category that could be re-named because it includes New York state residents betting off-track through their NYRA Bets accounts, totaled $152 million. The average daily handle of $21.9 million is the highest in the storied history of the Spa.
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