Saratoga: Sáez is injured in spill; Prat will ride Mage in Travers

Luis Sáez suffered injuries to his collarbone and left wrist Wednesday in a spill at Saratoga and will be replaced by Flavien Prat for the ride on Kentucky Derby winner Mage in Saturday’s Grade 1 Travers Stakes.

Ramiro Restrepo, co-owner of Mage, said in a Thursday morning text message to Horse Racing Nation that Prat would ride the Good Magic colt who finished second July 22 in the Haskell (G1) with Javier Castellano aboard at Monmouth Park.

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Sáez suffered “a dislocated right collarbone and a slight fracture in his left wrist,” agent Kiaran McLaughlin said in a post Wednesday night at X, formerly Twitter. “No surgery needed.” Rodney Paine, Sáez’s valet, posted a pre-dawn photo Thursday saying the jockey had been released from Albany Medical Center.

Burning Bright, the horse Sáez was riding, fell and died of heart failure in the John’s Call Stakes, a 1 5/8-mile race on firm turf Wednesday. An allowance winner owned by AJ Suited Racing and David Levitch Sr., the 6-year-old Empire Maker gelding trained by Norm Casse “was rated outside in the two to three path,” according to the Equibase chart, “suffered a fatal cardiac event on the second turn and hit the rail then fell.”

Sáez also was booked Friday for Secret Oath in the Personal Ensign. Now Castellano will have that ride, according to Daily Racing Form. On Saturday, Sáez was going to ride Pipeline in the Forego, Dr B in the Ballerina and One in Vermillion in the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial. He was replaced by Manny Franco on Evvie Jets in Thursday’s Ballston Spa (G2).