Zarella Ore, a 26-year-old apprentice jockey severely injured in a paddock mishap at River Downs on Sunday, is recuperating from surgery performed Tuesday at University Hospital in Cincinnati.
Ore had screws inserted in both sides of her hip and in the right side of her pelvis, said her agent, Mitch Reed. Ore also injured parts of her spine, which did not require surgery to repair.
A full recovery is expected, but Ore faces upwards of six to eight months of therapy, Reed said.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Standing in the shed row of his barn Wednesday morning as rain steadily poured, trainer Rusty Arnold said his 2-year-old filly Southern Protocol might be unlucky yet again in finding a race that actually stayed on the turf.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The week began with the Australian champion Alinghi winning a stakes race in her North American debut. The connections of Keep the Faith hope the success of Australian-bred horses continues through Saturday's Grade 1 Forego Stakes.
Keep the Faith, an Australian-bred son of Sunday Silence, was brilliant in his North American debut, winning a classified allowance race at Belmont Park on July 24. Making his first start in 15 months, Keep the Faith ran six furlongs on turf in 1:06.82, a North American record for the distance.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The horse named Dubliner is a Brazilian. And if you think that's puzzling, try coming up with a winner in Arlington's featured race on Friday.
Only six were entered in the Friday feature, carded at 1 1/8 miles on turf for third-level allowance horses or $62,500 claimers. But six is enough - enough, at least, to tingle the brain.
She Says It Best, a seven-length winner of the Aug. 20 Fisher Debutante at Ellis Park, will be gunning for her fourth victory in five career starts when she starts as the likely favorite Saturday in the $100,000 Bassinet Stakes at River Downs.
Vickie Foley, trainer of She Says It Best, said the two-week span between the Debutante and Bassinet is not a major concern, nor is the turnback from seven to six furlongs.
MIAMI - Fans of racing for 2-year-olds will be hard pressed to find a more attractive program than Saturday's Juvenile Showcase at Calder, a 14-race card consisting exclusively of 2-year-old races.
The unique Labor Day weekend program will be highlighted by the middle legs of the Florida Stallion Stakes, the $125,000 Affirmed Stakes and its filly counterpart, the $125,000 Susan's Girl Stakes. Both races will be run at seven furlongs.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - One filly has untapped potential; the other has the edge in experience. Together, Unobstructed View and Fantast give trainer Todd Pletcher a solid duo for the $100,000 Sorority Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park.
A six-furlong race, the Sorority is the top 2-year-old filly stakes of the season and highlights the holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore.
Unobstructed View has trained all summer at Monmouth. She has made only one start, on Aug. 4, when she won her maiden at Saratoga.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The entry of Financingavailable and Sweet Problem could pack a powerful one-two punch for trainer Lorne Richards in Friday's Woodbine feature, a $100,000 optional claimer for fillies and mares.
Financingavailable, a stakes performer on the grass, was sold by trainer Mark Casse to owner K.K. Sangara and Richards in the summer of 2004. In her first start for her new connections, she was a close second to Blonde Executive in the La Prevoyante Stakes after dueling up front with that rival throughout the one-mile turf race.
EDMONTON, Alberta - Some unheralded 2-year-old fillies will have their time in the spotlight Friday when a field of eight battles it out in a maiden special weight offering at Northlands Park.
The division's top flight will meet here Saturday afternoon in the 12th running of the $50,000 Bird of Pay, with nine nominated to that 6 1/2-furlong race.
Meanwhile, Friday's group will be sprinting six furlongs, each in quest of her first victory.
