Jockey Luis Saez has been transported to Albany Medical for further evaluation after an incident at Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday, reported the New York Racing Association's Keith McCalmont on Twitter.
Saez was alert, conscious, and moving all extremities when he was loaded into the ambulance on a back board.
Per David Grening, Saez was complaining of pain in his shoulder/collar bone. The jockey is booked to ride Kentucky Derby winner Mage in Saturday's Grade 1 Travers Stakes, as well as
The incident occurred during the John's Call Stakes, a 1 5/8-mile turf contest. Burning Bright, a 6-year-old son of Empire Maker trained by Norm Casse, suffered a probable cardiac event on the second turn, breaking through the inside rail where he collapsed and died.
More information on this story will be provided when it becomes available.
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