Jockey Carlos Montalvo was taken by ambulance to North Shore University Hospital following the running of Saturday’s 11th race at Aqueduct in which his mount Bacchi fell.
A second horse, Rotten to the Core, died instantly after he fell over Bacchi and suffered head or neck trauma, according to New York Racing Association officials. Bacchi sustained a knee laceration, but otherwise was reported to be okay.
Ryan Curatolo, the jockey of Bacchi, appeared to escape the spill uninjured.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Lady of Shamrock has finished the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting with a perfect record on turf.
On Saturday, the 3-year-old filly won her third consecutive turf stakes in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes over 1 1/8 miles. The only blemish on her record since arriving at trainer John Sadler’s barn last fall was a third in the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes on dirt here in January.
Lady of Shamrock won the Blue Norther Stakes on turf in December and the China Doll Stakes on turf in March. Both races were over a mile.
STICKNEY, Ill. – Done Talking rebounded from a dull performance in the March 3 Gotham Stakes and captured the Illinois Derby by three-quarters of a length over Morgan’s Guerrilla early Saturday evening at Hawthorne Race Course.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark.- Laurie’s Rocket overtook pacesetter Apprehender in the late stages for a one-length win in the $75,000 Bachelor for 3-year-olds at Oaklawn Park on Saturday. It was another three lengths back in third to Top Cat Boogie.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Nick Zito’s fortunes changed in a matter of 40 minutes.
One race after watching his 3-year-old Casual Trick fail to finish the Wood Memorial, Zito let out a huge exhale after his gritty 5-year-old Jackson Bend held off the hard-charging Caleb’s Posse to win Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap by a nose at Aqueduct.
It was 1 1/2 lengths back to Shackleford, who was followed by Emcee and Tahitian Warrior. Calibrachoa was scratched in the morning due to a quarter crack.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Allowed to coast along on an uncontested lead, just as in the Swale four weeks earlier, Trinniberg romped to an unchallenged victory in a slow-motion renewal of Saturday’s Grade 3 Bay Shore Stakes.
Although Trinniberg’s opening half-mile of 47.41 seconds was hindered to some extent by a headwind, as was Broadway Alibi’s half in 47.25 wiring the Comely a race earlier, veteran rider Willie Martinez basically stole the race in broad daylight. Consider that New York-bred maidens went almost a full second faster to the half through the same wind earlier in the day.
ARCADIA, Calif. – When trainer Doug O’Neill was going through a barren stretch in recent years, owner Paul Reddam never wavered from his corner. And though both O’Neill and Reddam could have reached out for a more prominent rider for their top 3-year-old I’ll Have Another, they stuck with Mario Gutierrez.
OLDSMAR, Fla. – Speedy It's Me Mom moved right to the front at the start of the six-furlong, $75,000 Sprint and made every pole a winning one as she scored her fifth win from her last six starts with a track record-setting performance that highlighted the 10th running of Florida Cup Day.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Rusty Arnold said before the Ashland Stakes was run for the 75th time Saturday at Keeneland that he believed Karlovy Vary was a better filly than It’s Tea Time, who barely missed winning the Grade 1 race two years ago. Such pronouncements often go awry, but this one sure didn’t, as Karlovy Vary led all the way under Jimmy Graham to win the Ashland by three-quarters of a length as a 15-1 length overlay.
“This was good,” said Arnold. “This one will work.”
