![]() “I guess you can do whatever you want to do out there. “Horse should have come down,” Brown said. Ortiz angered Zandon’s trainer, Chad Brown, for whom he often rides. John Velazquez, Zandon’s rider, said: “He laid on top of me right before the wire and just beat me by very little.” On Saturday, Ortiz had to survive an inquiry and a jockey’s objection after his mount, Mo Donegal, brushed Zandon, whom he beat by a nose in the Grade 2 Remsen Stakes for 2-year-olds. Fortunately, Ragtime Blues and Moreno were uninjured. Gran Casique was disqualified from second and placed last. Ortiz let Gran Casique drift inside soon after the start and they bumped hard with Ragtime Blues, who was turned sideways before Moreno fell near the rail. Ortiz’s reckless behavior in Friday’s eighth race at Aqueduct caused apprentice Omar Hernandez Moreno to be unseated. His agent, Steve Rushing, confirmed the suspension and told drf.com that Ortiz would not appeal it. It then divided 45 percent among tickets with six winners and added 24 percent to the carryover.Irad Ortiz on Dunbar Road – Photo by NYRA/Coglianese Photo Stewards in New York handed Ortiz a 30-day suspension because of separate riding incidents on Friday and Saturday at Aqueduct. Per its rules on days with multiple winning tickets, Gulfstream took out 20 percent of the day’s Rainbow 6 bet. HorseRacingFLA’s review of Equibase charts shows there were eleven tickets with all six winners, On Sunday, the Rainbow 6 paid $16,386.52 on the 20 cent bet. Gulfstream is guaranteeing that the payoff on the Rainbow 6 will be at least $600,000, including all of the coming-in carryover, if there is just one ticket with all six winners ![]() is second with 45, followed by Mike Maker with 39. Jose Ortiz, Irad’s younger brother, is sixth with 47.ĭefending champion Todd Pletcher leads trainers with 52 wins. He is followed by Luis Saez with 85 and Lopez with 83.Įdgard Zayas is fifth with 67 wins. Irad Ortiz Jr, leads jockeys with 131 victories. Wednesday is the 75th day of the 84-day Gulfstream championship meet. He has a history of Gulfstream stewards suspending him for careless riding, several times for 30 days. Lopez told the Daily Racing Form that he did not fight back because he was concerned about a possible suspension. It put Ortiz and Lopez on probation for the remainder of the championship meet. Gulfstream fined Ortiz $1,000 for the incident. Ortiz approached Lopez and surprised him with three punches–a right to the jaw, followed by a left and then another right to the sides of his head. ![]() Lopez filed an objection, which the stewards disallowed.Īfter making a phone call to the stewards, Lopez was in a chair near the winner’s circle. Known Agenda went on to win by eleven lengths in the 1 1/8 mile allowance/optional claiming race for 3-year-olds.Īs Ortiz rode Known Agenda toward the winner’s circle, he was screaming at Lopez. Known Agenda moved out slightly, and was brushed from behind by Top Gun Tommy. In that day’s fourth race Known Agenda, ridden by Ortiz, was pulling ahead of Top Gun Tommy, ridden by Lopez, in the final turn. That incident and the suspension are not connected to a confrontation that Ortiz had with jockey Paco Lopez at Gulfstream on Feb 26. Stewards conducted an inquiry, but took no action on the result. In the second race on March 5, Ortiz’s mount Passion Plus veered out entering the stretch and bumped into one horse that bumped into another. He won the Eclipse Award as top jockey for 20. Ortiz is a 27-year-old native of Puerto Rico. Ortiz has 131wins and he will have a chance to break the all-time Gulfstream meet record of 137, which Luis Saez set in 2018-2019. It is anticipated that Ortiz will resume riding at Gulfstream on Sunday March 21.Įven though he is missing six days at Gulfstream, he has enough wins to assure a third straight championship meet title. Ortiz’s next scheduled mounts are on Saturday March 20 at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, on a multiple graded stakes day. Ortiz (photo on home page) will be serving the third day of a five-day suspension that Gulfstream stewards handed down on him because of an incident in a race on March 5. The only carryover is on the Rainbow 6, at $315,073. The 20 cents per combination-only bet is on races five through ten with the sequence scheduled to start at 3:11 p.m.Īn important note for handicappers is that Irad Ortiz Jr., who leads jockeys in victories at Gulfstream’s 2020-2021 championship meet, will not be at the Hallandale Beach, Fla., track. After being dark this Monday and Tuesday, Gulfstream Park will resume racing on Wednesday with ten races and first post at 1:10 p.m.
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