Dettori is off rides Friday after gate accident at Aqueduct

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Frankie Dettori & NYRA TV

Jockey Frankie Dettori suffered a separated shoulder in a
gate accident Thursday at Aqueduct, and he will miss his six booked rides Friday.

“He’s off today,” his agent Ron Anderson said in a text message Friday morning to Horse Racing Nation. “Day to day.”

Dettori is booked to ride in 11 races Saturday and Sunday at Belmont at the Big A, including on 7-2 favorite Ocean Club in Saturday’s Grade 3 Noble Damsel Stakes. Dettori also is named on mounts for two stakes Monday at Finger Lakes, where he never has ridden before.

The 53-year-old riding star posted a selfie Friday morning on X showing him in recovery at Jamaica
Hospital in New York.

“I appreciate all the messages. I’m doing OK,” Dettori said. “I dislocated my right shoulder. My team here in
the hospital have put it back together.”

Dettori was dismounted before the start of Thursday’s finale
at Belmont at the Big A. He was on maiden Pretty Liza, a once-raced, 2-year-old
Kantharos filly owned by Taven Rodríguez and trained by Rudy Rodríguez.

“Pretty Liza unseated Frankie Dettori at the gate before the
start of the (ninth race),” New York Racing Association spokesperson Keith McCalmont wrote on X. “The horse was scratched and
walked off. Dettori walked to the ambulance and will attend Jamaica Hospital
for further evaluation.”