Roberto Gonzalez lives with constant pain
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Roberto Gonzalez shifts uncomfortably in the padded armchair.
A once-broken neck reminds the 56-year-old jockey that he can't sit in one place for long as he gets to his feet and repositions himself behind the recliner, leaning on the back for support.
Pain still radiates from his back to his legs 20 months after the crash that ended one of the most successful careers in Northern California horse racing.
"It's in your bones," Gonzalez says of the discomfort. "From top to bottom, I had damage."
On April 29, 2009, he was riding a 2-year-old filly at Golden Gate Fields in her maiden race when she broke a leg and careened into the path of another horse.
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