Dominant Display: Big Hug Romps as Zenteno Makes Emotional Comeback by @CurtisJStock
Two and a half months ago jockey Rafael Zenteno Jr. woke up in a hospital bed at the University of Alberta, not knowing where he was or why he was there.
Everything was just a frightening grey blur of fog.
Saturday afternoon he was back in a familiar and much happier place: the winner’s circle at Century Mile after winning the Alberta Breeders’ Fall Classic Distaff - one of seven $60,000 Alberta-bred stakes races - by as far as she pleased.
Underneath Zenteno’s huge grin was Big Hug the enormously talented reddish-brown coloured thoroughbred that he said propelled him to recover as quickly as possible from his numerous injuries he suffered in a spill at Century Mile on June 28.
“I was thinking about not riding again this year,” said Zenteno, who broke bones and incurred a severe concussion.
“You don’t want to mess with your head,” said Zenteno.
But one thing kept calling his name: Big Hug.
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