Veteran jockey Tim Doocy, who won his 5,000th career race during the 2009
Oaklawn Park meet, was injured in a training accident at the Hot Springs,
Arkansas, oval on Monday morning. Doocy’s mount was pulling up from a three-furlong workout when she collided with the pony being ridden by outrider Chisum
Ewing, who was chasing a loose horse.
Doocy was taken to the Emergency Room at St. Joseph’s Mercy Health Center
where early diagnosis indicated fractures to his ankle, knee and hand. He was
being scheduled for surgery on Monday afternoon.
“The filly was galloping out strong,” said Doocy following the accident. “I
just didn’t see Chism until too late. We hit head on.”
Doocy’s mount was The A. T. M. (Trippi), a maiden two-year-old filly, owned
by Shim Racing and trained by Steve Hobby. Ewing escaped injury from the
accident. Both horses were euthanized on the track.
Just two weeks short of his 55th birthday, Doocy has enjoyed many of his best
moments at Oaklawn. He was champion rider at the track in 1998 and 1999. His
most celebrated memories of Oaklawn come when he won the 2008 Count Fleet Sprint
H. (G3) aboard Semaphore Man (Formal Gold) for trainer Kelly Von Hemel and in
his many wins aboard popular Oaklawn campaigner Chindi for Hobby.