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Thumb_privman Jay Privman , Del Mar , 07/10/2020 - DRF Live Posted : Jul 10, 2020, 11:43 PM

Espinoza tests positive for coronavirus

Jockey Victor Espinoza has tested positive for coronavirus and will be "out for awhile," his agent, Brian Beach, said Friday night.

Espinoza had a test taken in San Diego County on Friday after a test he had taken on Thursday in Orange County failed to be processed in a time he had been promised. Since that Orange County test had yet to come back by the start of racing Friday, Espinoza was taken off his mounts.

According to Beach, Espinoza -- who rehabbed at Scripps locally after being seriously injured at Del Mar in a training accident two years ago -- was able to reach out to contacts at Scripps to get a test on Friday that was processed quickly. That test revealed he had tested positive for coronavirus.

Espinoza is the third rider who was at Los Alamitos last Saturday who has subsequently tested positive. Martin Garcia was announced as having tested positive on Wednesday, and Luis Saez was announced as having tested positive on Friday. Both Garcia and Saez have ridden at multiple tracks in the past week. Espinoza has not traveled anywhere via airplane. Los Alamitos's final day of its brief summer meeting was Sunday.

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