Apprentice jockey Giles expected to make full recovery
Apprentice jockey Emmanuel Giles is expected to make a full recovery from serious injuries sustained in a race on Dec. 26 at Hawthorne Racecourse.
Giles’s mount Mommas Boy Otis broke down in the eighth race on the Dec. 26 card, causing two trailing horses to fall over him. Those horses and their riders, Carlos Ulloa and Diego Sanchez, escaped serious injury, but Giles shattered his hip. Giles underwent successful surgery to stabilize the fracture with screws and plates and still is in physical therapy, according to his agent, Penny Ffitch-Heyes, who said if all goes well Giles could return to race-riding in four or five months.
Giles is the brother of journeyman jockey Francisco Giles and had been working at Chicago tracks as an exercise rider before taking out a jockey’s license in 2021. Giles was having a good run during the fall-winter meet at Hawthorne, winning 13 races.