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Samy Camacho, Monmouth Park's second-leading rider and the leading jockey at Tampa Bay Downs each of the past three years, said he will be sidelined “four to six weeks” with a right shoulder separation suffered in a spill on July 2 at the Jersey Shore track.

Camacho has 121 wins overall this year, 29 at Monmouth Park.

Also injured in the spill was jockey Jorge Luis Gonzalez, who said he suffered a stable fracture of his L3 vertebrae from the incident that could sideline him four to six weeks as well.

“I'm home resting, taking my time to get better soon,” Camacho said by phone from his home in New Port Richey, Fla. “It's a separation of the anterior joint of my right shoulder. The specialist said it all depends on how quickly I heal but he thinks I will be out four to six weeks.”

Camacho hit the turf in the fourth race when his mount, Bingo's Girl, could not avoid a fallen Momma's Kim and Gonzalez. Momma's Kim went down after clipping heels with Gold Alliance, who drifted out at the three-eighths mark of the five-furlong grass event for 2-year-old fillies.

The 35-year-old Camacho, who hails from Caracas, Venezuela, said he is not frustrated “because I'm with my family and spending time with my wife and (four) kids.”

“The same thing happened to me in 2017, except it was the left shoulder that time. This time it's the right shoulder,” he said.

His future riding plans depend on how quickly he recovers.

“If I can't get back until September I will probably go to Gulfstream and wait for Tampa to start,” said Camacho, who has won four of the past five riding titles at Tampa Bay Downs. “If I can be back sometime in August I will probably come back to Monmouth Park to finish the meet.

“But if it's later than August I will probably just go to Gulfstream. I want to come back as soon as possible but I want to make sure I am 100 percent first.”

Monmouth Park's meet ends on Sept. 10.

Gonzalez, who has five wins from 42 starts at the Monmouth meet, initially did not think he had suffered any injuries in the spill and even rode Bayou Shack to a second-place finish two races later. X-rays taken late last Sunday revealed the fracture.

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Jockey Charle Oliveros, a perennial top rider at Mountaineer in New Cumberland, WV, achieved the 1,000th victory of his career on Wednesday evening when Wild Wine won the card opener by a length.

The Venezuelan-born Oliveros has been among the top 100 riders in the United States by wins each year since 2017, finishing among the top three riders at Mountaineer from 2018-2020 and capturing the leading jockey title in 2021. Last year Oliveros finished second in the standings, and this year he is currently ranked third.

Oliveros began riding in 2011, but did not achieve his first victory until 2013. He first passed the 100-win mark for a year in 2017, riding at Mountaineer and Mahoning Valley in Ohio, and has maintained that momentum (excluding 2020, in which he won 97 races during a season truncated by the pandemic) each year since.

The rider's career win rate stands at 14 percent, with 1,000 winners from 7,001 starters and career earnings of $11,858,359.

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On November 13, 1990, it was a quiet evening at Calumet Farm, where the most valuable racehorses—including the prolific stallion Alydar, who is insured for $41.5 million – had settled into their stalls for the evening. Alton Stone, filling in for the regular night watchman, completed his rounds at the barn. Although nothing seemed out of the ordinary, an inexplicable hunch led Stone to check on Alydar. What he found – a grievously injured horse with no discernible cause – jump-started one of the biggest mysteries to ever hit the horse racing world.

After a four-year investigation, animal law attorney Fred M. Kray uncovers new details in the #1 Amazon bestseller, Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing's Golden Age (Live Oak Press – May 2, 2023).

One part true-crime investigation, one-part evocative history of the adrenaline-filled days of horse racing's golden age, Kray follows Alydar's rise to fame and then dives into the sordid details of the crime and trial that came to define his legacy. Told with the taut pacing of a legal thriller, the book investigates Alydar's death, the $41.5 million insurance payout, and the stain it left on the sport of horse racing.

Throughout the book, Kray weaves together shocking testimony and key evidence from the trials, featuring dramatic photos taken the night of the incident. Drawing on interviews conducted with more than 25 key witnesses, Kray reveals insider-only details and, in order to discover the truth about the death of this magnificent horse, embarks on a major investigation –one that leads to an unexpected and startling conclusion.

Visit https://fredmkray.com/ where readers can submit their own verdict after reviewing actual photos and evidence gathered from Kray's four-year investigation. The website is also a wonderful tribute to Alydar and includes photos, stats, and videos from his legendary career.

ALYDAR RACING CAREER AND LEGACY:

• At the time of his death in 1990, Alydar was the leading sire in the United States.
• His name will always be synonymous with Affirmed, known by many as the greatest rivalry in the history of Thoroughbred racing and his second-place finishes to Affirmed in the 1978 Triple Crown.
• In an ironic twist, Alydar and Affirmed were housed together at Calumet the night of November 13, 1990.
• He had a successful racing career of his own, having raced 26 times and his win-place-show record was 14-9-1.
• His purse earnings were just shy of $1 million: $957,195.
• He was inducted into horseracing's Hall of Fame in 1989.
• The Alydar Stakes has been held in Saratoga until 2022.
• He found Triple Crown redemption in his sons, Alysheba and Easy Goer. Between the two, they gave Alydar the Triple Crown, which he tried so hard to win.

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Flavien Prat invaded Ellis Park on Saturday and came away with Grade 1 and Grade 2 stakes wins and the honor of Jockey of the Week for June 26 through July 2 by the panel of racing experts. The award recognizes jockeys for riding accomplishments and who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 1,050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.

While usually riding in New York at Belmont Park, Prat travelled to Kentucky for the penultimate day of the Churchill Downs meet at Ellis Park which featured six stakes races.

The Greg Foley-trained Stitched with Prat in the irons, went off at odds of 46-1, the second longest shot in the field 10 in the G2 Wise Dan. Racing in fourth and four-wide through the second turn, Stitched had his sights set on the leader Get Smokin. Stitched caught Get Smokin in the final sixteenth to post a neck win in 1:40.97 for the 1 1/16 miles on the turf rated as good. Prat picked up the mount on Stitched when Marcelino Pedroza, Jr. was unavailable to ride.

“I'm really grateful I got the mount,” said Prat. “He broke well from the gate and was able to be in a good position when we needed to make a move. He gave me a chance to get into the race and he did things from there.”

Brad Cox gave a leg up to Prat in the feature race of the day, the Grade 1, $1 million Stephen Foster aboard West Will Power. Off as the 2-1 favorite in the field of eight, West Will Power broke sharply from post position six and sat a perfect stalking trip in second. He grabbed the lead on the far turn and held off the fast closing Rattle N Roll to win by a half length in 1:47.93 for nine furlongs on the main track.

The Stephen Foster was the third win of the day for Prat.

“He was cruising all the way around there,” Prat said. “He just carried me home to the wire down the stretch. I was really impressed by the way he won this winter at Fair Grounds in the New Orleans Classic (G2). It was a different setup last time out in the Alysheba (G2). He came back here to Ellis and the race shape was much more to his style.”

Prat outpolled Javier Castellano who won two stakes races including the G2 John A. Nerud, Emisael Jaramillo who won the G2 Smile Sprint, Sheldon Russell who won all three stakes races at Laurel, and Luis Saez with three stakes wins.

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