Jockey Miguel Mena was killed after being struck by a car as a pedestrian on I-64 westbound in Louisville, Ky., the night of Oct. 31. He was 34.
In keeping with the Jefferson County Coroners Workplace, the reason for dying was blunt pressure accidents and it was dominated an accident. Jeffersontown police mentioned no expenses are pending, WAVE 3 Information reported.
“He was a man everybody preferred,” mentioned Jose Santos Jr., who acted as Mena’s agent at instances over his profession: “He was one of the preferred guys on the monitor, I would say. Everybody felt actually strongly about him as a result of he had a hell of a persona. Whether or not you had been driving him or not, he was a man you could possibly sit and speak to for a very long time. He was only a good individual. Actual unhappy stuff, that is for certain.”
Coach Al Stall Jr., one of many jockey’s main backers, referred to as upon Mena to journey a few of his high horses, together with Tom’s d’Etat in the 2020 Stephen Foster Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs when the horse’s common rider, Joel Rosario, was unavailable.
“That was the simplest determination I ever needed to make in horse racing,” Stall recalled. “When Rosario stayed in New York to journey Uni , I didn’t take two seconds to get the fill-in. It made life easy there.
“He rode large races nicely,” Stall added. “He wasn’t affected by zeros behind a handbag. I seen that through the years.”
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