Dylan Davis out 3-4 months with shoulder injury

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Dylan Davis will be out three to four months after sustaining a tear in the labrum of his left shoulder in a spill last Sunday at Aqueduct. Davis will undergo surgery to repair the shoulder within the next week to 10 days, according to his agent, Nick Soulis.

Davis, 21, was one of three jockeys unseated in Sunday’s last race. Anthony Suarez was unseated when his mount, Thirty Percent, clipped heels with the horse on the lead. He fractured his sternum and will be out about a month, according to trainer Mark Tasso, for whom Suarez rides in the morning.

Katie Davis, the younger sister of Dylan, also was unseated but returned to race-riding Friday at Aqueduct and won her first race of the meet aboard Stoneheartedlover ($31.80).

In last Sunday’s ninth race, Dylan Davis was aboard Humbolt Street, who attempted to hurdle the fallen Thirty Percent in the stretch. Davis was unseated and landed on his left shoulder. Davis’s shoulder popped out, and he was able to pop it back in. Davis went to Jamaica Hospital, and X-rays were negative. However, an MRI taken this week revealed the tear.

Soulis said Davis needs the surgery to stabilize the shoulder and keep it from popping in and out of the socket.

Davis had ridden five winners from 69 mounts at the inner-track meet.