Jockey's kind gesture to Wonder Gadot 'brought me to tears'
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Since joining Twitter in March of 2017, trainer Mark Casse has posted to the social media account just twice. One was to show a photo of the champion Tepin dozing in her stall more than a year ago. And then came Sunday's dispatch.
Wonder Gadot made history as the first filly to start in the Travers Stakes since Davona Dale in 1979, but she wasn't up for becoming the race's first female winner in more than 100 years. That didn't stop jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. -- in his first time aboard Wonder Gadot -- from treating her like one.
Fans circulated some footage of Ortiz Jr. giving Wonder Gadot a pat in the lane of Saturday's race, even as she finished last of 10 contenders. Casse's thoughts upon seeing it:
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