Dettori resumes riding Sunday after shoulder injury in N.Y.

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Carlos J. Calo / Eclipse Sportswire

Frankie Dettori will be back to riding Sunday at the Belmont at the Big A meet, 10 days
after he suffered a separated shoulder in a gate accident at Aqueduct.

“Dr. Steve O’Brien has released him to start on Sunday,”
Dettori’s agent Ron Andersen said Tuesday, confirming the story first reported
by Daily Racing Form.

O’Brien is a New York orthopedist who examined Dettori on
Monday.

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Dettori, 53, injured his right shoulder in a gate accident
before the start of the final race of Thursday’s card at
Aqueduct. He was unseated from once-raced 2-year-old Pretty Liza, who is
owned by Taven Rodríguez and trained by Rudy Rodríguez. The filly was walked
back to her barn, and Dettori was taken by ambulance to Jamaica Hospital in New
York for preliminary treatment.

The accident kept Dettori off his rides Friday, Saturday and
Sunday in the Belmont at the Big A meet and forced him to miss what would have
been his first-ever rides at Finger Lakes on Monday. He was named for two
mounts Wednesday at Aqueduct, but he will have to be replaced. Dettori also
will skip the California Crown (G1) card Saturday at Santa Anita.