Laurel Park
Carrasco's broken leg making good progress
Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club Victor Carrasco is recovering from a foot injury sustained last Sunday at Laurel.
Injured rider Victor Carrasco received a positive assessment from his doctor Tuesday and has been cleared to pick up the pace in his physical therapy.
Carrasco, the Eclipse Award-winning apprentice of 2013 and a mainstay in the Maryland riding colony, broke the tibia and fibula in his lower right leg in a September spill at Delaware Park. On Tuesday, his doctor told him he no longer needed to wear a walking boot.
“The bone is healing great but is not 100 percent yet,” Carrasco said. “I’m allowed to start doing whatever I want in therapy, just not running or jumping.”
Carrasco, 25, is scheduled to be reevaluated in late March and hopes to then be cleared to begin getting back on horses.
