Updated: Rispoli, Velazquez, Stevens Would not Make Saudi Cup Immediately after Vacation Complications – Horse Racing Information

Umberto Rispoli, John Velazquez, and retired rider-turned-broadcaster Gary Stevens will not make this year’s Saudi Cup soon after a series of travel head aches similar to overbooked flights and COVID-19 test timelines. The Thoroughbred Every day Information reviews that initially, the trio arrived at airports Wednesday to find out their tickets had been cancelled. They had been informed the Saudi travel team had unintentionally double booked the second leg of their journeys and when the additional reserving was cancelled, the 1st leg was routinely cancelled.

Stevens, Rispoli, and Joel Rosario rebooked flights for Thursday and have been sitting down on the airplane in California when they have been knowledgeable they would not be allowed to journey to their final spot just after all. Saudi officers are requiring a damaging COVID-19 examination within just 72 hrs of arrival into Riyadh and due to the fact they didn’t depart as scheduled, they have been told their checks experienced expired. Rosario was capable to continue being en route just after he showed the final results of a quick test he experienced taken right after the past day’s hold off. Stevens and Rispoli were being told they could have been permitted to go to their layover in Qatar, but would not have been permitted to board a plane to Riyadh from there.

The TDN at first claimed that Velazquez experienced been stranded at his layover in Spain following producing his flight out of Miami, but later revised the tale to replicate that he had not been permitted to depart Miami. Velazquez had been knowledgeable that experienced he built it to Spain, he would have been violating the country’s COVID-19 protocols to transfer involving terminals to get to his Riyadh flight.

William Buick will now be aboard Tacitus, and Miguel Barcelona will ride Max Player in the Saudi Cup.

 

Devastated 😭 @TVG @DRFInsidePost @thesaudicup @AtTheRaces @theTDN @MaxPlayer__ pic.twitter.com/AlhRxgScGX

— Umberto Rispoli (@umbyrispoli) February 19, 2021

Devastated 😭 @TVG @DRFInsidePost @thesaudicup @AtTheRaces @theTDN @MaxPlayer__ pic.twitter.com/AlhRxgScGX

— Umberto Rispoli (@umbyrispoli) February 19, 2021

 

I tested damaging 4 situations this 7 days to make it to the Saudi cup but never ever manufactured it any place,due to the fact flights canceled or completely wrong choices. I am not in Spain. Quite disappointed

— John Velazquez (@ljlmvel) February 19, 2021

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