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by Pat McKenna
A GoFundMe page to help with medical costs for injured exercise rider and former jockey Julio Pezua has been established by horse owner Aron Yagoda at https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-julio-pezua.
Pezua, an exercise rider for trainer Linda Rice, was injured April 2 in a training accident at Belmont Park when his mount, Five Alarm Robin, incurred a fatal cardiovascular event and unseated the veteran rider. Pezua was transported to Winthrop Hospital, where he underwent surgery and remains as a patient.
As a jockey, Pezua, 65, was a multiple graded stakes winning rider, who won 1,316 races, including Grade 1 scores at Belmont Park with Dixie Brass in the 1992 Metropolitan Handicap and aboard Silver Voice in the 1987 Manhattan.
Yagoda said that as a student in the 1980s at the University of Miami, he began following the career of Pezua, then riding in South Florida. Yagoda said that since setting up the GoFundMe page on Monday that numerous donations have already come in, demonstrating how the horse racing community comes together in times of need.
“You have so much competition, and yet when somebody gets injured, people look out for one another,” said Yagoda, a board member of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA). “It says a lot about the people in our sport.”
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West Point Thoroughbreds and Steven Bouchey’s Grade 1-winner Carson’s Run will make his return to the races in Saturday’s $125,000 Woodhaven, a one-mile turf test for sophomores, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
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Four-time Eclipse Award winning trainer Chad Brown will send out five horses across two turf stakes as grass racing returns to New York this weekend, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
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Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher’s Grade 1-placed New York-bred The Wine Steward makes his return from a six-month layoff in Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile Grade 3, $400,000 Lexington on Saturday at Keeneland.
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When Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial presented by Resorts World Casino winner Resilience was a foal, he carried himself in the way that elite racehorses do; with a self-assured manner that showed he knew what was expected of a horse with his pedigree.
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Trainer Linda Rice, fresh off winning the Aqueduct Racetrack winter meet title with 23 wins, combined with jockey Jose Lezcano to win five races here on Thursday’s card on Opening Day of the spring meet.
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Jockey Dylan Davis tops all riders with 54 wins at the Aqueduct Racetrack winter meet, but the 29-year-old native of Manhasset, N.Y. will be 6,387 miles from the Big A when the meet concludes Saturday to ride at Meydan Racecourse for the first time when he guides Pandagate in the Group 2, $1 million UAE Derby and Clapton in the Group 1, $12 million Dubai World Cup.
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