Last updated: 12/18/10 12:58 PM
Apprentice jockey Jaime Rodriguez sustained a fractured clavicle after being
unseated at the start of Friday’s 4TH race at Aqueduct. He will be sidelined for
an undetermined period of time.
The 19-year-old Puerto Rican native was injured when his mount, Giopi (Ire)
(Medicean), stumbled at the start of the race. Rodriguez got up immediately,
walked to the ambulance, and was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where the fracture
was diagnosed.
Rodriguez has won 11 races from 120 mounts at Aqueduct this year.
Giopi, a three-year-old gelding trained by Brad Baker, was not injured in the
incident.