A pre-race incident at Horseshoe Indianapolis on Tuesday left jockey DeShawn Parker with serious injuries, according to the Daily Racing Form. Prior to the eighth race, Parker's mount Dabney reared and flipped over, landing on top of the veteran rider.
Parker suffered four fractures to his pelvis and a tailbone broken in two places. The former required surgery to repair; Parker posted on Twitter Wednesday that the surgery had gone well and he would move on to recovery.
The 52-year-old is among the leading riders at Horseshoe Indianapolis this season, ranked sixth by wins as of Tuesday's card, and won the riding title at the Shelbyville, Ind. track in 2020. Parker is the all-time leading rider at Mountaineer Park, and has a record of over 6,100 career victories.
He is also well-respected by his peers: he was voted the winner of the 2021 Mike Venezia Memorial Award and 2021 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.
Parker's late father is the highly-respected steward Daryl Parker.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
Thank you to everyone for the prayers and well wishes, just letting everyone know I had surgery on my pelvis, everything went well, now on to recovery
— DeShawn Parker (@JockDeShawn) June 28, 2023
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