Exercise riders at Churchill Downs honor Callie Witt

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Fellow training riders at Churchill Downs honored and remembered 20-12 months-old Callie Witt, the workout rider who died after becoming thrown from a horse at Keeneland very last Friday.

The tragic accident happened Friday morning on Keeneland’s teaching observe, where by Witt was thrown into the air from a two-calendar year-outdated unraced horse who became spooked. Witt died soon afterwards, in accordance to Keeneland officers.

On Thursday morning, exercise trainers at Churchill Downs wore white armbands symbolizing their remembrance of Witt.

Witt was from Nebraska, and examined at Bluegrass Local community and Technical School.

Riders were being observed carrying the armbands by WAVE Information throughout Dawn at the Downs protection on Thursday.

“It’s just a tricky situation, but the workout riders out in this article needed to honor her,” WAVE News anchor Connie Leonard mentioned.

“There are so lots of,” WAVE Athletics contributor Jody Demling claimed. “That’s the tricky aspect. There are so quite a few. I imagine this is a thing that has started out. And it is a thing that will improve as the months go on.”

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Keeneland officials explained Witt wanted to be a jockey. She started out as an intern at Keeneland right before going into a full-time exercising rider.

Witt experienced been working for work out trainer Joe Sharp. Sharp’s spouse, Rosie Napravnik, spoke with WAVE News on Wednesday about Witt’s loss of life.

“We’re all right here with accepting the actuality that this is how perilous this activity is,” Napravnik explained. “There’s definitely no text to express how tragic this loss is, but the only detail that we as a barn, as Joe’s barn, were being in a position to choose away from it was that Callie — this was all she wanted to do.”

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