Jockey Wilmer Garcia Fractures Two Vertebrae In Prairie Meadows Spill

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Jockey Wilmer Garcia fractured his C-4 and C-5 vertebrae in an incident on Sunday at Prairie Meadows Racetrack in Altoona, Iowa, reports the Daily Racing Form. The multiple graded stakes-winning rider will require two surgeries to repair the fractures. Garcia was injured in Sunday's eighth race, unseated when his mount Sweet Holiness stumbled at the start, bumped […]

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