TORONTO, March 29 – Jockey Jim McAleney, who has ranked in the top five at Woodbine the past five years, is sidelined indefinitely after a morning training accident.
The Ancaster, Ontario resident, who won a career-best 113 races in 2006 at the Toronto oval, sustained a broken femur in the mishap, an injury that will require surgery and keep him out of action for an unknown period of time.
The lifetime winner of nearly 1,800 races ranked third at Woodbine last year, recording a career-best 13 stakes triumphs, including five with Sovereign Award winner (Older Mare) Financingavailable. He also partnered Pellegrino to victory in the Chief Bearhart Stakes, giving Hall of Fame conditioner Roger Attfield his 300th career stakes tally.
McAleney, who won his first career race on August 24, 1986 at Northlands Park in Edmonton, received the 1987 and 1988 Sovereign Award as Canada’s top apprentice.
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