By Bill Finley
After being involved in a spill in Thursday's fifth race at Gulfstream, Irad Ortiz, Jr. was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.
When reached by the TDN via text, his agent, Steve Rushing, said he had no updates and was awaiting the results of tests.
Early indications were that Ortiz was not seriously injured. Reporting on FanDuel TV, Caton Bredar said Ortiz was complaining of hip pain, but added that he told the ambulance driver he was “fine.”
“I'm told by track officials that Irad was alert, awake, conscious, answering all questions,” Bredar said on FanDuel TV. “He told the ambulance drivers that he was fine, but he did have some pain in his hip, so they did take him to the hospital to get that checked out. It appears that he escaped anything serious, and that is definitely some good news.”
Bredar also reported that the horse Ortiz was riding, A Moment a Love (Kantharos), was collected by the outrider and was not injured.
The Equibase chart caller footnote gave an account of the incident: “A Moment a Love ducked in at the start, broke through the inner rail, lost the rider, galloped along the inner turf course and walked off.”
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