Jockey Garrett Gomez, a two-time winner of the Eclipse Award as outstanding rider, was taken to a local hospital following a spill in the ninth race at Hollywood Park on Saturday, Daily Racing Form reported.
Gomez’s mount, Bonnie Brown Eyes, had a clear lead in the stretch but violently broke down near the sixteenth pole. Bonnie Brown Eyes, a two-year-old filly by Singletary making her second lifetime start, died instantly after falling on her neck, Daily Racing Form reported.
Hollywood Park publicity director Mike Mooney told Daily Racing Form that Gomez was being X-rayed for possible shoulder and elbow injuries but sustained no life-threatening injuries.