Jockey Eddie Castro,
who fell from his horse in the eighth race at Aqueduct Racetrack on Wednesday,
was released from Jamaica Hospital Wednesday evening after X-rays
and tests revealed no fractures or major injuries.
Jockey Edgar Prado, also involved
in the spill, took off his final mount of the day at Aqueduct in race 9, but
appeared to escape serious injury.
In race 8, a New York state-bred
allowance going six furlongs on the inner track, Reading Group (#1), trained by
Ramon Hernandez and piloted by Eddie Castro, was bumped on the far turn by his
entrymate, Aheadofthejoneses (#1a), who veered out. The collision unseated
Castro, 25, and Aheadofthejoneses, trained by John Kimmel, fell shortly
thereafter, unseating jockey Edgar Prado, 43.
Reading Group, a 3-year-old colt,
was not injured in the incident, while Aheadofthejoneses, a 3-year-old gelding,
bled from the nose and was vanned off the racetrack. Doast (#2), who had been
traveling behind the fallen horses, was pulled up and walked off the track.