Belmont Stakes

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I'd like to hear more on how i could learn something from you rail jockeys?!? Are you kidding? Don't test me. Save your money for rib fest... it will be cheaper.

 

 

How much money did you make on Belmont day?

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Jockey Andrew Lakeman, involved in a spill at Belmont Park on Friday, remained in critical condition at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island Saturday with severe spinal cord damage and a fractured chest, according to New York Racing Association officials.

 

Lakeman, 32, was placed on a respirator Saturday morning. Lakeman did not have any head trauma, as originally feared.

 

"He is on a respirator," said Charles Hayward, NYRA's president and chief executive officer, who went to the hospital on Saturday along with NYRA's director of communications John Lee. "He's pretty heavily sedated, he's still critical, but he is stable and certainly much improved from his situation when he was admitted."

 

Jockey Andrew Lakeman suffered paralysis from the waist down and doctors informed him Wednesday night that he would not be able to walk again, according to a friend of Lakeman’s who spoke Thursday on behalf of the family.

 

Lakeman, 32, severed his spinal cord from the T-5 vertebra down and suffered multiple other injuries as a result of a spill he was involved in at Belmont Park on May 25. His mount, Our Montana Dream, clipped heels with a horse in front of him, and Lakeman was hurled hard to the ground.

 

In addition to the paralysis, Lakeman suffered a fractured sternum, punctured lung and he broke a couple of ribs, according to Tom Daughn, who said he is a close friend of Lakeman’s. Lakeman is also suffering from a case of pneumonia.