Body Identified as N.Y. Jockey : Racing: Partial remains of a rider missing since July 20 wash ashore on a New Jersey beach.
Body parts that washed up in a garbage bag at Seven Presidents Park beach last week have been identified as the remains of a New York jockey.
Crews removing timber and other waste from beaches Thursday discovered the bag, which contained a head, arms and legs of a man.
Monmouth County authorities used fingerprints to identify the dead man as Pedro Ortega, 26, of the Bronx, N.Y., an apprentice jockey who rode regularly at New York’s Acqueduct and Belmont Park race tracks.
He was reported missing July 20.
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