Lone Star Park
Jockey Tejera back from Uruguay
Jack Coady/Coady Photography Eguard Tejera, shown winning the 2011 Sam Houston Distaff with Afleet Deceit, has returned to the United States from Uruguay.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – When jockey Eguard Tejera won last Saturday’s fifth race at Lone Star with Dulce de Batata ($27), it was his first North American win since June 26, 2011. The score came in his third start here after spending the past several years riding at his home track of Maronas in Uruguay.
“All my family lives there, and I needed to see my family,” Tejera, 36, said of returning to Uruguay. “At the same time, I was riding there.”
Tejera said for part of 2013, he was sidelined due to injuries sustained in two separate spills and resumed riding in November. By January, he had won his country’s most prestigious race, the Group 1 Clasico Gran Premio Jose P. Ramirez aboard Hielo.