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It's not every day a jockey loses his irons coming out of the gate when his mount stumbles and then goes on to win, but that happened to Irad Ortiz Jr. and Donegal Forever at Belmont Park in the fifth race on June 17.
Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. earned his fifth win on Saturday’s 10-race card when guiding First Row Partners and Team Hanley’s reigning champion female sprinter Goodnight Olive to victory in the $200,000 Bed o’ Roses (G2), a seven-furlong main track sprint for older fillies and mares, at Belmont Park.