There were many reasons for Mike Luzzi to call it quits after the serious injuries he suffered in a freak paddock accident at Aqueduct in the fall of 2014. There was one motivating factor for him to try to get back. Lane Luzzi, Mike’s son, wanted to be a jockey. Mike wanted to show him the ropes, and the two were hopeful of one day riding together. On Monday, five months after Mike Luzzi, 46, resumed his career and three months after Lane Luzzi, 18, started his, the father and son will be riding the same card at Laurel Park. Though the two won’t be competing in the same race, it will be the first time they’ve ridden at the same track on the same day since Lane rode his first race last November. “I wanted to get back because of him – that was definitely one reason – and potentially ride races with him,” said Mike Luzzi, whose lone mount Monday will be aboard Green Gratto in the Grade 3, $250,000 General George Stakes, a race Luzzi has won three times. “But I also wanted to show him this is what you’re getting into here. It’s not if [you’ll get hurt], it’s always when and how bad and all those clichés. At the same time, I was thinking I got to show him you can’t lie down and give up if it’s still in you.” Lane Luzzi, a seven-pound apprentice who has won 19 races from 161 mounts, rides two horses in non-stakes races earlier on Monday’s card. Lane said riding with his father “is something I even thought about before I rode a race.” Lane Luzzi had already started galloping horses in the morning in New York before that fateful Nov. 2, 2014, afternoon when an unruly Tricky Zippy flipped over in the Aqueduct paddock, landing on Mike Luzzi, who suffered a fractured pelvis and a broken left leg. Luzzi required multiple surgeries and a total reconstruction of his pelvis. “It was a question of whether or not I’d ride again,” said Luzzi, the 1989 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice who now has 3,429 career victories. For the first three months of his recovery, he was basically in bed. When able to get out of the house last spring, Mike Luzzi would be at Belmont every morning to watch his son gallop horses for trainers Kiaran McLaughlin and Joe Sharp. Mike Luzzi credited Art Magnuson, then the New York assistant to McLaughlin, and Sharp with developing Lane into “a very good exercise rider, which is scary because most jocks aren’t.” Lane Luzzi believes his desire to be a jockey helped aid his father’s recovery. “Besides being actual motivation, it kept him busy and gave him something to look forward to,” Lane Luzzi said. “As I progressed and learned a little bit more, I think he saw a little bit of himself in me, and it gave him the itch to make it back.” Though Mike and his wife, Tania, had originally steered Lane toward other interests, Lane knew he always wanted to be a jockey. Mike Luzzi said his son was already an expert on the Equicizer, a mechanical horse that helps a jockey simulate riding, before he got on a real horse. After two years of Catholic school, Lane Luzzi went to Floral Park High School in New York for two years, getting on horses most mornings before classes started. “He was born to do it,” said Mike, who added that he and his wife named their son after the bull rider Lane Frost. Mike said he watches all of Lane’s rides, and the two go over each one every night. Mike said he’s been pleasantly surprised at how professionally his son rides considering his relative inexperience. “He did a couple of race-riding things that I don’t remember doing until I was riding two or three years,” Mike Luzzi said. “Maybe he didn’t do it on purpose, but it sure looked like it. “His finish on a horse doesn’t look like a bug boy,” he added. “It’s been a real treat for us.” That includes John Luzzi, Mike’s father and Lane’s grandfather. John resides in Florida, where he watches Mike and Lane ride on television. He was scheduled to fly to Maryland and be at Laurel on Monday. On Feb. 6, Mike and Lane won races on the same day, with Lane winning three on the Laurel card and Mike winning one at Aqueduct. Though Mike has struggled for business since resuming riding, he has won four races from his last 24 mounts, which helped him pick up Green Gratto, who is certainly a major player in the General George. Luzzi first won the General George 25 years ago on Star Touch. Following Monday’s card, Laurel closes for about three weeks. Maryland-based trainers might look to run in New York, especially since Parx Racing has now pushed back its reopening until Feb. 27. That means there might be more opportunities for Lane and Mike to ride together at Aqueduct. “It would definitely be cool for a few weeks,” Lane Luzzi said about riding at Aqueduct. “People at Laurel, if they go to New York, that’s excellent, but more of them I think will be at [Parx] and Penn. Where I’m needed, I’ll be.”