Jockey Cristian Torres will miss a couple weeks of racing after being dislodged from his mount on Sunday at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., according to the Daily Racing Form. Torres suffered a pair of hairline fractures in the incident, one in his tailbone and the other in his right ankle.
During Sunday's fifth race, a $25,000 non-winners of two claiming event, Torres' mount Big On Broadway jumped a shadow at the three-eighths pole. The move unseated Torres, and the loose horse subsequently bothered three additional horses in the race.
According to the Equibase chart, Big On Broadway walked off the course under her own power.
Big On Broadway was not reported to have suffered serious injury.
A native of Puerto Rico, Torres was attending the country's Escuela Vocacional Hipica Agustin Mercado Reveron when Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September 2017, roughly two months before he said he was to graduate from the famed jockey school.
Torres moved to Florida and eventually New York, where he began exercising horses for future Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse in 2018. Among the horses Torres said he got on for Casse were multiple Grade 1 winner Got Stormy, millionaire Awesome Slew, and 2019 Preakness champion War of Will.
Torres began his riding career in April 2019 at Gulfstream Park and won 122 races that year to finish 76th nationally. He won 120 races the following year to finish 43rd. Torres was fourth in voting for an Eclipse Award as the country's champion apprentice jockey of 2019 and finished fifth for 2020.
Despite missing the first six days of the 2021 meeting after moving his tack from Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., Torres finished seventh in the standings with 22 victories in his Oaklawn debut. Torres, 24, recorded his first career Oaklawn stakes victory on the penultimate day of the meeting in the $200,000 Arkansas Breeders' Championship aboard Tempt Fate for Hot Springs owner Jerry Caroom.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
Thank you all for your prayers. I'm home with my family, I have 2 hairline fractures. One in my tailbone and one in my right foot ankle, thank God I don't need any surgery. I want to thank everyone who calls and messages, also my family, my fiancé, my valet, my agent @RubenMunozM
— Cristian A. Torres (@cristiantorr64) March 28, 2022
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