Surgery could keep Day out of Derby2005-03-19 · Boston Globe
Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day , as much a Kentucky Derby fixture as mint juleps and colorful hats, will undergo hip surgery and could miss the Derby for the first time in 21 years. Day said yesterday he will have surgery March 30 in Vail, Colo.; he faces a rehabilitation of 4-12 weeks. He said the hip pain started ...…