Jockey Miguel Mena was sent to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for precautionary X-rays after he was unseated from his mount at the start of Keeneland’s first race Sunday.

 

Mena suffered soft tissue injury to his neck and left thigh but was described as “awake and alert,” by Keeneland medical personal. His mount, She’s Due, stumbled leaving the gate at the start of the 1 1/16-mile race.

 

Mena was replaced on all of his mounts for the balance of the afternoon.