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Month: May 2023
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Agent Says Jockey Mauro Cedillo Is “Going to Be Okay”
It was not hard to expect the worst when apprentice jockey Mauro Cedillo went down in a May 1 spill at Thistledown. It was as frightening a spill as you could ever see and it appeared that he had been trampled by one, if not more horses, after being thrown to the track. He was taken to the intensive care unit at Cleveland's MetroHealth Medical Center and was on a ventilator while heavily sedated.
But less than a week after the spill, the 24-year-old apprentice from Guatemala is in the midst of a remarkable recovery and his agent, Luis Quinones, reports that Cedillo is “going to be ok.”
That was part of a text message that Quinones sent the TDN Monday in which he gave an update on his jockey's status.
“I just want to let you know that Mauro Cedillo was taken off the ventilator (Sunday) and he was breathing on his own,” the text read. “He stood up and was walking good today and he was moving his hands. Everything is going to be ok, according to the doctors. God answered all the prayers.”
Things are going so well that Quinones is hopeful that Cedillo will ride again.
So Happy to see Mauro Cedillo with a smile
GOD It's awesome!
thank you everyone for all the prayers … pic.twitter.com/30If9dxkng
— Guillermo Rodríguez (@GRodriguez1312) May 7, 2023
“He has no other injuries,” he wrote in a follow-up text. “He got very lucky. He will make a full recovery, the doctors said, and his plan is to ride again. But he will have to be 100%. It will take time but he says he wants to ride again.”
Cedillo was riding Spectacular Road (Road Ruler) in the day's first race when his mount stumbled entering the turn, throwing the rider to the track. At the behest of the jockeys, Thistledown canceled the rest of that day's card.
The 24-year-old Guatemalen native has been riding since 2021 and has 101 career wins, including 23 this year.
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More Than $1 Million in Breakage Returned to Winning Bettors Across Oaks and Derby Days
Courtesy Thoroughbred Idea Foundation
Winning horseplayers at Churchill Downs and around the world betting into the pools across Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby days enjoyed more than an additional $1 million in winnings thanks to an amendment to Kentucky law which now rounds winning bets to the penny.
The practice, known as breakage, has been in effect across all of American racing, relatively unchanged, for more than a century. But Kentucky's legislature passed an amendment to existing laws in March 2022. The measure took effect in July of last year, making Saturday's Kentucky Derby won by Mage the first in modern history to pay winning bettors to the penny.
Mage returned $32.42 to win, $14.58 to place and $9.08 to show for every $2 bet.
A $100 place bet on Mage this year returned bettors an additional $9 in 2023 compared to what would have been paid to them under the old breakage calculation.
For the Derby itself, more than an additional $318,000 was paid back from just the win, place and show pools thanks to penny breakage. The total amount across all pools is even higher. Traditionally, winnings have been rounded down to the dime and that amount was retained by bet-takers, either on-track or by account wagering operators.
“This amended law puts the entirety of a winning bet back in the hands and accounts of horseplayers, where it has always belonged,” said Patrick Cummings, executive director of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, which first advocated for the shift to penny breakage in a 2018 white paper.
“Breakage has skimmed billions of dollars off the top of winnings that should have been paid to horseplayers. Decades ago, it might have been slightly more understandable why such a law existed, but not today, and Kentucky's legislators recognized that and made a meaningful change that will benefit those that support racing through wagering.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, total wagering on the 2023 Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby days were both record highs, as was all wagering across the entirety of Derby week.
“Breaking to the penny, enabling customers to churn those additional winnings ,undoubtedly played a role, no matter how small it might seem. Kentucky's continued success should serve as an example for other states, tracks and horsemen to advocate for penny breakage, following Kentucky's lead.”
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The Thoroughbred Idea Foundation advocates for sustainable improvements to the Thoroughbred racing industry for all stakeholders, especially its primary customers–horseplayers and horse owners–through the exchange, curation and advocacy of sound, data-driven ideas, shared with and implemented by the sport's existing entities.
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