Jockey Jareth Loveberry will not be able to ride Kentucky Derby runner-up Two Phil's in this Saturday's Grade 3 Ohio Derby, reports the Thoroughbred Daily News. An unknown injury will sideline the veteran rider, agent Steve Leving explained.
Loveberry was breezing a horse for Jason Barkley when the horse stumbled and rolled over the rider. Initially, Loveberry thought he was okay, but after traveling to Canterbury for Wednesday's five stakes races, the jockey was only able to fulfill four of his five stakes mounts.
“We don't know the entirety of it yet,” Leving told the TDN. “He has to see a doctor and he is in a lot of pain. After he took off the last mount at Canterbury they put him in an ambulance, gave him an IV and took him to a local hospital. He's back home now and is going to see a doctor to figure out the severity of the injury. That he's not riding Two Phil's tells you it's not good, that this is serious. It could be a pectoral tear and that takes months to heal.”
Two Phil's, trained by Larry Rivelli, will instead be ridden by Gerardo Corrales.
Read more at the Thoroughbred Daily News.
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