


Power Picks stats the last 60 days: Top picks are winning at 31.8, second picks are winning at 21.3, and third place picks are winning 16.0. On Saturday, in addition to Known Agenda in the Belmont Stakes, Irad Ortiz was supposed to ride Drain the Clock in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens (replaced by Jose Ortiz), Moretti in the Grade 2. The rider also broke his own record set in 2019 for earnings in a year in North America. Get Expert Belmont Park Picks for today’s races. She was gathered by an outrider and "walked home," according to Belmont Park officials. hits 77 single-season stakes wins with Dr B at Aqueduct Racetrack. According to Richard Migliore of America's Day at the Races, Jose relayed that Irad had "some cuts and contusions because he was clipped by one of the trailing horses," but that he "was moving and talking."Įqual Pay appeared to gather herself after the incident and crossed the wire first while riderless. won three races on Sunday’s closing-day card to overtake Dylan Davis and finish the Belmont Park spring/summer meet as leading rider with 48 wins, one more than Davis. Jose Ortiz and jockey Junior Alvarado both rushed to the side of the fallen rider as he laid on the track. won the Belmont Stakes with Mo Donegal in June to go with Breeders’ Cup victories in the Juvenile, Filly & Mare Sprint and Sprint. attended Puerto Rico’s Escuela Vocacional Hípica, a school for. Grandfather, also named Irad Ortiz, was a jockey, as was uncle Ivan Ortiz. victory one week later aboard Millennium Jet on June. Minutes after he was bucked from the horse, Ortiz was stretchered to the on-site ambulance and sent to North Shore University Hospital, agent Steve Rushing told Horse Racing Nation.Īccording to the public-relations team at Belmont Park, Ortiz was "awake and alert, moving all extremities." Micallef accepted, and Ortiz rode his first race at Belmont Park on Jand had his first U.S. Irad Ortiz did finish first in purse money won with 5,457,984. Ortiz was on the lead aboard first-time starter Equal Pay for trainer Chad Brown when the 3-year-old Quality Road filly appeared to take a bad step. Ortiz won his biggest race of the meet Saturday when he captured the Grade 1, 750,000 Belmont Derby aboard Far Bridge. X rays Clean ? be back in a couple weeks ? /nWoYkDVoox- Jose Ortiz June 4, 2021 2017 New York, 296 winners 2017 Belmont fall, 51 2017 Aqueduct spring, 30 2017 Aqueduct inner track, 76 2016 Belmont fall, 48 (tie) 2015. The reigning three-time Eclipse Award-winning jockey, Irad Ortiz was scheduled to ride in nine races on Friday at Belmont and in all 13 races on Saturday's stakes-filled program, including aboard Known Agenda in the 153rd Belmont Stakes.
