Tom Keyser
Garrett Gomez, strapped to a stretcher, is taken to an ambulance after being thrown from a mount Thursday at Churchill Downs.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Jockey Garrett Gomez escaped serious injury Thursday after being thrown to the Churchill Downs turf in a sixth-race spill when his mount, Indy Bouquet, broke down early on the second turn of the one-mile race.
Gomez was immobilized by track medical personnel and transported to Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, where a report, coming from agent Ron Anderson an hour after the spill, was positive.
"I think he's dodged a bullet," Anderson said. "He's a little sore in his [right] shoulder."