{"id":20277,"date":"2017-06-20T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=20277"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:48:03","slug":"coltimus-prime-gives-rene-douglas-clasico-return-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/coltimus-prime-gives-rene-douglas-clasico-return-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Coltimus Prime Gives Rene Douglas A Cl\u00e1sico Return To Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rene Douglas made a triumphant return to his native Panama on Sunday, where he launched a riding career that would carry him to 3,587 victories over 27 years in the United States. That career ended suddenly on the afternoon of May 23, 2009, when a horse Douglas was riding at Arlington Park fell, rolling over him, and leaving the jockey paralyzed from the chest down.<\/p>\n

Douglas, 50, spent six months in the hospital and has undergone several stem cell treatments in the interim. It’s been a struggle, but he has reemerged with the encouragement of family and friends to enter the bloodstock world, putting together deals to buy stakes winning horses like Golden Moka and Private Zone in the name of Good Friends Stable.<\/p>\n

His return to Panama was as an owner, and on Sunday he claimed the nation’s biggest racing prize when Canadian-bred Coltimus Prime charged to a stretch-running victory under 17-year-old Angel A. Rodriguez in the $140,000 Cl\u00e1sico Presidente de la Republica before a full house at the Hip\u00f3dromo Presidente Remon racecourse.<\/p>\n

The 6-year-old by Milwaukee Brew \u2013 trained by Roderick Rodriguez \u2013 was a 10-1 longshot in the field of 14, despite a 4-for-25 record in North America that included victory in one leg of the Canadian Triple Crown \u2013 the 2014 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie.<\/p>\n