Sutherland to resume riding next month at Woodbine

NEW ORLEANS – Jockey Chantal Sutherland, injured in an accident at Fair Grounds on Jan. 25, will return to her native Canada and begin riding again with the opening of Woodbine on April 21, she said this week at Fair Grounds.

Sutherland fractured her left collarbone and right knee in the accident. Sutherland had surgery Jan. 26 and said she had a plate put in to support the collarbone and another to support the knee.

“I had to be in a wheelchair at first,” she said.

Sutherland said she has been cleared to get on horses again April 12 and that Don Parente would be her agent at Woodbine.

“We’ve had a lot of success in the past,” Sutherland said. “I’m excited to go back to Toronto. My dad lives there, my brother lives there, and my sister lives in Ottawa.”