by Brisnet.com
Jockey Jackie Davis was released from North Shore University Hospital early
Monday morning after X-rays and scans came back negative following a spill
Sunday after the conclusion of the ninth race at Aqueduct. Ryan Curatolo, also
involved in the incident, walked off the track and appeared uninjured.
“Her initial X-rays were negative, but she told the doctors she was still in
pain, so they did a CT scan, and that was also negative,” Davis’ agent Roger
Sutton said. “She was hurting, but she’s tough.”
Sutton added that Davis, who is off her Monday mounts at Aqueduct, could ride
again Thursday.
In Sunday’s race, a six-furlong maiden race for three-year-old New York-bred
fillies, Curatolo’s mount, Raw Moon, collapsed after finishing fifth, apparently
having suffered a fatal cardiovascular collapse. The 19-year-old rider was
unseated, but exited the track under his own power. Curatolo — one of three
finalists for the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top apprentice, an award which
will be presented at a ceremony Monday evening in California — has no scheduled
mounts at Aqueduct Monday.
Davis’ mount, Fundsalo Jones, was unable to avoid the fallen horse and also
fell, unseating her rider, who was taken by ambulance to North Shore complaining
of back and shoulder pain. Fundsalo Jones, the seventh-place finisher, got up on
her own accord and was walked back to the barn.
Curatolo, a native of Marseilles, France, currently is fifth in the jockey
standings for the Big A’s inner-track meet with 28 winners. Davis, 23, a
Saratoga Springs, New York, native and the daughter of retired jockey Robbie
Davis, is tied for ninth with eight winners.