Engels Alfredo Medina Araque / @engelsmedina23
Since Daniel Coa he won his first race on October 3, 2021 with the horse Master Shot, all equestrian fans realized that they were in the presence of a great jockey.
His style over purebloods was evident and from that moment he began to attract the attention of many people.
The following weeks I was constantly entering the winners’ enclosure. On October 10 with Brave Yole, October 17 with Linda Paciencia and Mr. Kamelooh, November 7 with Sharapova, November 14 with Amor Amor and Bumblebee and November 20 with Champions Abarrio.
“My phone would not stop ringing, my so-called friends wrote to invite me to do anything, or to ask about me,” he said. Coa in an exclusive interview for this medium.
“After my suspension, my cell phone never rang again, my so-called friends disappeared, my days were endless. I even tried to sell my jockey instruments in order to survive,” he revealed. Daniel.
“What I am going to say is going to sound a bit strange, but luckily this happened to me, despite the fact that I am in the worst moment of my career, I have learned a lot, there are few people who reached out to me and I will know how to repay them,” he said.
“Today, Friday, May 27, I had a meeting with Dr. Jessie Rella and the Superintendent of Equestrian Activities Antonio Álvarez, both of them were very supportive, Dr. told me a few words that made me reflect,” he explained.
“I want to recover from my addiction to give the best of me. The first help I will receive from the INH authorities will be with rehabilitation for my condition. Gradually I hope to start my career as a jockey”, she confessed.
“Even though I am a forty-year-old man, what I did was immature, I was building a castle and for a moment I knocked it down,” he concluded.
A trip to the past. Daniel Coa had not ridden in public competitions since May 8, 2015, where he won with the Hesacutabove, at the Indiana Grand Race Course. At that time, the jockey decided to put an end to a successful career in the United States that he had started in 1998.
The race of the Creole whip in the United States was excellent, there he managed to enter the winners’ enclosure 795 times and in his first full season, in 1999, he won 109 races, which made him be among the nominees for best apprentice of the year for that campaign.