Shagaf pulls out Gotham win, moves into Derby picture (The Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — About an hour before the Gotham Stakes, jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr., was rolling around in pain on the track. One of racing’s rising stars had been unseated by his horse after the finish of the seventh race at Aqueduct. He was placed on a stretcher, put in an ambulance and checked out by doctors.