Jockey Jose Ortiz has decided to ride Simplification in the 2022 edition of the Run for the Roses, his agent Jimmy Riccio told Horse Racing Nation. The Antonio Sano-trained son of Not This Time won the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes and was most recently third in the G1 Florida Derby.
Ortiz was also the regular rider for Chad Brown trainee Early Voting, second last out in the G2 Wood Memorial. However, Brown remains noncommittal about entering the Gun Runner colt in the Kentucky Derby.
“There's still a question if Early Voting wants the mile-and-a-quarter,” Brown told HRN.
Simplification would be Ortiz' fourth mount in the Kentucky Derby; his best previous finish was a second aboard Good Magic for Brown in 2018.
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