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Jacky Davis Out Several Weeks After 'Avoidable' Finger Lakes Incident
Jacky Davis Out Several Weeks After 'Avoidable' Finger Lakes Incident originally appeared on Paulick Report.
Jockey Jacky Davis will miss at least two to three weeks of racing after an incident on Monday at Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack in Farmington, N.Y. She suffered two fractured ribs and three additional displaced fractures in her ribs, as well as multiple abrasions, a liver laceration, and an air pocket near her lung.
"I'm blown away by all the support I've been getting from everyone on the racetrack, my fans, people coming to visit," Davis said. "It is incredible."
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The incident occurred in Monday's fifth race, a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight. Jockey Keiber Coa, aboard the frontrunning favorite Miss C Banker, "drifted in nearing the 11/16ths pole," according to the Equibase chart. The move caused Davis' mount, Reason to Risk, to "alter in," then to clip heels and fall.
Coa and Miss C Banker went on to cross the wire first, but stewards disqualified Miss C Banker and placed the filly last. Stewards later issued a seven-calendar-day suspension to Coa, to begin on June 11; this equates to three racing days.
Davis remembers hitting the ground, then nothing until she woke up in the ambulance. She has since found out that her mount, the William Bartlett-trained Reason to Risk, was "banged up" in the fall but did make it back to her stable.
"I just personally think the whole thing was avoidable," Davis said. "I don't think it was intentional, but it's the beginning of the meet and everyone is really hungry. I think it's a lesson to everybody, and I hope they learn from it."
Davis said this is the first time she's broken a bone in a horse racing incident, and that the most time she's ever had to take off for an injury was three weeks due to concussion during her apprentice days.
"The doctors told me six weeks, but usually you can kind of cut that in half," Davis said. "Like most jockeys say, 'If we can wrap it, we're gonna ride.'"
"She's a tough kid; she's a Davis," echoed her agent, former jockey Dean Frates. "It's bred into her, being tough. When I was in [the hospital with her] the night it happened, the first thing she's talking about is getting back to riding!"
Davis has been riding full time at Finger Lakes for five years, and is currently among the top 10 riders there by wins, and she has also picked up mounts on dark days at Charles Town in West Virginia.
The multiple stakes-winning rider has compiled 953 career wins from 9,050 starts since launching her career in 2008. She is the daughter of jockey Robbie Davis, and her siblings Katie and Dylan are both jockeys as well.
Jacky Davis graduated from the inaugural class at the North American Racing Academy near Lexington, Ky., where she earned an associate degree in equine science.
This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jun 5, 2025, where it first appeared.
