In anticipation of surgery. (Photo thanks to Carol Cedeno)
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Compiled by Maribeth Kalinich
Jockey Carol Cedeno has made 10,031 starts with 1,346 first place finishes. In her last start in Monmouth in the Meadowlands, she was seriously injured.
Carol rode three mounts in Delaware Park on Saturday 27 September, including fifth place on board Conch fried rice In the Christiana Stakes.
The seasoned jockey then traveled to the Meadowlands in New Jersey to ride two on Monmouth on the Meadowlands meeting that runs under the lights.
After driving Richie’s Valentine Carol was on board to a fourth place Micro Brewsky In Race 4, a fee optional claim race.
Micro Brewsky ran from the pace inside. He and Cedeno came two wide in the lane, which came on the rail and gave a short lead along Middenstraat.
The 5-year-old Jersey Bred seemed to make a winning movement along the Rail, which was approaching the finish line for the peat race of a mile.
Then, according to Carol, her mountain stepped in a hole on the turf “and he stumbled Carol badly to the ground.
Cedeno was aware and gave a thumb up when she was taken off the track on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance. She was transferred to Hackensack Medical Center and complained about pain and ribs.
Cedeno was kicked by two horses, one on her back broke her ribs and spine, the other on her wrist that was disrupted and broken.
The tough athlete said that the fractures in her spine are small and will only heal. Allegedly she operated on her wrist on Monday and she was able to rest at home soon.
Unfortunately, the injury to Micro Brewsky was catastrophic in nature and the gelding had to be euthanized. (Our deepest condolences with owner and Fokker Eagle View Farm.)
Carol’s start
Although Cedeno grew up around horses in Puerto Rico, she only got the racing bug around the age of 12 years. Her cousin had a few horses and invited her to the circuit. It was then Bug started biting.
‘[My cousin] I told me that I could be a jockey because I was small, “she remembers.” So one day he took me with my father and I decided that I wanted to be a jockey. ‘
Carol scored her first victory over El Comandante Racetrack in Puerto Rico on board Divine king On January 14, 2007. She rode her first race in the US in the former Philadelphia Park (now Parx) on April 9 that year that year got her first American victory on board on board Coco’s gold.
Ride on her first mountain Cambridge Belle In June 2007 in June 2007, Cedeno did not become a regular rider there until 2014. She also has six riding titles there second in the rankings in 2017. On July 11, 2018, Cedeno, Notes Seven victories in one day In Delaware Park.
Her record environment Seventh victory came in Race 10, the Arab Race, on board Tiffanys Dream.
Leave November 2023Carol Cedeno was a travel woman in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when trainer Kerri Raven encouraged her to join the Jockey Colony Tampa Bay Downs.
Cedeno said she had mixed feelings. She had two young children to raise while building her career.
“She has always told me that I have to come to Tampa, that I would do well,” said Cedeno. “And my agent (Mark Mace) told me almost every day that I had to come here.”
Carol moved her tack back to the mid-Atlantic Ocean in April 2024. In January 2025 she went to New York as a regular rider at Aqueduct, where she was located in 2008.
Located in Delaware Since May Cedeno, Mounts has picked up in the entire Middle Atlantic area in Monmouth Park, Penn National, Parx, Laurel Park, Pimlico and Colonial.
In May, Cedeno had the honor to win the very last race run in Old Hilltop before the facility closed for demolition.
Cedeno would guide Arabic Diamond gem Aato a 14-1/2 length victory in class 1, President Cup deployment of the VAE.
“It feels great,” says Cedeno, thinking about this moment. “I was so happy to win that race.”
This year she is seventh in the classification in Delaware in a very deep jockey colony with 21 victories in 180, the board starts to reach an extra 34 times with $ 736,900 that is fifth in the win.
The 34-year-old Jockey has more than $ 35.6 million in career income, which means that it is usually in the difficult way in allowance and claiming classes.
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I just spoke with Carol Cedeno – she has problems with texting because of her broken wrist – but she is in a good mood! She said that the fractures in her spine are small and will heal herself. Her wrist was stepped by one of horses and was disrupted and broken. She is
– Megan Dero Halter (@meghalteresq) September 28, 2025
We wish Carol the best in her healing journey.
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