Douglas v. Arlington Park Racecourse, LLC

Plaintiff, a professional jockey, was paralyzed from the chest down after falling from his horse during a race. Plaintiff sued racecourse for negligent maintenance of track. Court gave long form of sole proximate cause instruction. As there was sufficient evidence to support sole proximate cause theory as to 2 of the defendants, defendants were entitled to long form sole proximate cause instruction. Court properly allowed expert to rely on data, where expert testified that data such as equine injury database was reasonably relied on by experts in his field. (BURKE, concurring; GORDON, dissenting.)