Jockey Abel Lezcano was expected to be
discharged from North
Shore
University
Hospital Sunday afternoon after an overnight stay
following a fall at
Belmont on Saturday. Lezcano, 21, was unseated
when his mount, Catreign, fractured his left front cannon bone and fell on the
backstretch in Saturday’s first race. Catreign was euthanized.
“Abel is doing much better,” said
the rider’s agent, Jean-Luc Samyn. “They are going to release him today. He
broke two ribs – but they were not displaced, which is good – and has a
laceration on his left ear. There was a lot of dirt in the cut and that’s why
they kept him overnight. It was difficult to clean and they were concerned about
infection, so he is on antibiotics. I think he’ll be out a month, more or less,
but we’ll know more after he sees the doctor again on Tuesday. He’s banged up,
but pretty lucky.”
Lezcano is 7-9-12 from 124 starts
in 2012 with more than $280,000 in purse earnings.