Florent Geroux back in the irons after COVID-19 diagnosis

Jockey Florent Geroux was getting on horses at Churchill Downs Tuesday morning for the first time since a positive test for COVID-19 put him on the sideline for two weeks until he tested negative.

Geroux resumes riding races Friday at Ellis Park.

“I never had any symptoms, I’m thankful for that,” he said. “I was not sick. You can see in our country and the rest of the world, some of them, it’s not very pretty. I was just thankful to not be sick. I missed a couple of weeks of racing, but that’s the way it is, and I had to stay home in quarantine.”

Several of Geroux’s scheduled mounts won in his absence at Ellis Park.

“It’s never a good time, but it’s better last week and two weeks ago than happening Kentucky Derby Week,” he said. “And I have some good mounts coming up now.”