Jockey Davis released from hospital

by Brisnet.com

Jockey Jackie Davis was released from North Shore University Hospital early

Monday morning after X-rays and scans came back negative following a spill

Sunday after the conclusion of the ninth race at Aqueduct. Ryan Curatolo, also

involved in the incident, walked off the track and appeared uninjured.

"Her initial X-rays were negative, but she told the doctors she was still in

pain, so they did a CT scan, and that was also negative," Davis' agent Roger

Sutton said. "She was hurting, but she's tough."

Sutton added that Davis, who is off her Monday mounts at Aqueduct, could ride

again Thursday.

In Sunday's race, a six-furlong maiden race for three-year-old New York-bred

fillies, Curatolo's mount, Raw Moon, collapsed after finishing fifth, apparently

having suffered a fatal cardiovascular collapse. The 19-year-old rider was

unseated, but exited the track under his own power. Curatolo -- one of three

finalists for the Eclipse Award as the nation's top apprentice, an award which

will be presented at a ceremony Monday evening in California -- has no scheduled

mounts at Aqueduct Monday.

Davis' mount, Fundsalo Jones, was unable to avoid the fallen horse and also

fell, unseating her rider, who was taken by ambulance to North Shore complaining

of back and shoulder pain. Fundsalo Jones, the seventh-place finisher, got up on

her own accord and was walked back to the barn.

Curatolo, a native of Marseilles, France, currently is fifth in the jockey

standings for the Big A's inner-track meet with 28 winners. Davis, 23, a

Saratoga Springs, New York, native and the daughter of retired jockey Robbie

Davis, is tied for ninth with eight winners.