How a New Orleans doctor helped the Preakness-winning jockey get back in the saddle

Jockey Paco Lopez suffered an ankle injury during a race at the Fairgrounds months before he won the Preakness. We talk with Dr. Robert Zura, department head of orthopaedic surgery at LSU Health New Orleans, who operated on Lopez's ankle.

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