- Edgar Prado
Edgar S. Prado is a thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Now a resident of Hollywood, Florida in 2004 Prado became the 19th jockey in thoroughbred racing history to win 5,000 races. On May 6, 2006, Prado rode Barbaro to victory in the 132nd Kentucky Derby, 6½ lengths ahead of the second finisher, Bluegrass Cat. The margin of victory was the largest since Triple Crown winner Assault won by eight lengths in 1946. - Nick Zito
Nicholas Philip "Nick" Zito (born February 6, 1948 in New York City, New York) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. Zito began his career as a hot walker and worked his way way up to a groom, to an assistant trainer, and to a trainer. His first top level horse was Thirty Six Red with which he won the 1990 Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes and earned a second place finish in that year's Belmont Stakes. Nick Zito went on to win the Kentucky Derby twice, … - Bob Baffert
Bob Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American horse owner and trainer. He is a 3-time Eclipse Award winner as outstanding trainer (1997-99); has trained 3 Kentucky Derby winners (1997,98,02), 4 Preakness Stakes winners (1997,98,01,02), 1 Belmont Stakes winner (2001) and 1 Kentucky Oaks winner (1999); 4-time leading annual money leader for trainers (1998-01). He and his wife appeared on the TLC cooking show, "Take Home Chef". - Steve Asmussen
Steven Mark Asmussen (born November 18, 1965, in Gettysburg, South Dakota) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who run El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas. His older brother, Cash Asmussen, is a retired Eclipse Award-winning jockey and a champion in Europe. Asmussen began racing at age sixteen as a jockey, … - Robby Albarado
Robby Albarado (born September 11, 1973 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding at the age of 12 at bush tracks in his native Louisiana and after turning professional, earned his first win at Evangeline Downs in 1990. Since then he has gone on to win more than 3,000 races, but his career has endured setbacks as a result of serious injuries. During 1998 and 1999 he suffered two skull fractures, … - D. Wayne Lukas
Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935 in Antigo, Wisconsin) is an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer. Lukas began training quarter horses in California in 1968 and after ten years of considerable achievement that saw him train 23 world champions, he switched to training thoroughbred race horses where he has become one of the most successful in history. The first trainer to earn more than $100 million in purse money, … - Calvin Borel
Calvin H. Borel (born November 7, 1966, in St. Martinville, Louisiana) is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby and lost the Preakness Stakes by a head to Curlin. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his fiancee, Lisa Funk. Calvin Borel hails from south Louisiana, the heart of Cajun Country famous for its production of many top jockeys during the last twenty years. - Barclay Tagg
Barclay Tagg (born December 30, 1937 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. A 1961 graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Animal Husbandry, he is best known for conditioning Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Funny Cide...and now for the up-and-coming Showing Up, as well as Nobiz Like Shobiz. He trains horses year round in New York, and in Florida during the winter. - Carl Nafzger
Carl A. Nafzger (born August 29, 1941 in Plainview, Texas) is an American horse trainer. Nafzger trained Unbridled who won the 1990 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic. In 1990 he was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer and the Big Sport of Turfdom Award. In 1994, he wrote a book on the training of Thoroughbred horses titled "Traits Of A Winner" that was publised by R. Meerdink Co. (ISBN 978-0929346328). - Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, 1953 in Brush, Colorado) is an American jockey. He is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991. Day also received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1985, given annually to a North American jockey who demonstrates the highest standards of professional and personal conduct. - Doug O'Neill
Doug F. O'Neill (born May 24, 1968 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. In 1986 he began working in Thoroughbred horse racing as a stable hand and eventually a training assistant. In 1994 he obtained his professional trainer's license and since the early 2000s has been a major figure on the California racing scene. - Alex Solis
Alex O. Solis (born March 25, 1964 in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey based in the United States. He currently lives in Glendora, California and rides predominantly in Southern California. He first gained national prominence when he won the 1986 Preakness Stakes with Snow Chief. In 2002, he was inducted in the Calder Race Course Hall of Fame. - Rafael Bejarano
Rafael Bejarano (born June 23, 1982 in Arequipa, Peru) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He trained at the Peruvian national riding school before embarking on his professional career in 1999. Having met with success, including winning the apprentice riding title at Hippodromo de Monterrico in Lima, he emigrated to the United States in the spring of 2002 and settled in Louisville, Kentucky. - Jim McKay
James Kenneth McManus, better known by his professional name of Jim McKay (b. September 24 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television sports journalist. McKay is best known for hosting ABC's "Wide World of Sports" (1961-1998)-his "...thrill of victory, agony of defeat" introduction for that program has passed into American pop culture-and television coverage of twelve Olympic Games. - Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza (born May 23, 1972 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding in his native Mexico and earned his first win there in 1992 before moving the following year to compete at racetracks in California. Since coming to the United States, Victor Espinoza has developed into one of the country's top jockeys. - Cornelio Velasquez
Cornelio H. Velasquez (born September 28, 1968 in Panama City, Panama) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He was introduced to horse racing at age fifteen in his native Panama and enrolled in the national jockey school. In his first year of racing he was his country's top apprentice jockey and was the leading rider again in 1994 and 1995. In 1996 Cornelio Velasquez emigrated to the United States to race at Elmont, New York's Belmont Park. - Jose Santos
José Santos is an United States thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He first raced horses at Club Hipico de Concepcion in his native Chile and in Colombia until moving to the United States in 1984 where he was the top money-winning jockey four years in a row from 1986 through 1989, winning the 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States. José Santos has won virtually every important race in America. - Julien Leparoux
Julien Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is the forerunner of a new wave of sensational jockeys to break onto the American racing scene. Biography ---- The son of an assistant horse trainer in France, Julien knew since he was only five years old that he wanted to be a jockey. Not able to ride racehorses at such a young age, Leparoux began riding competitive show jumpers in Chantilly (France's horse country) when he was 11. - Ron Turcotte
Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte (born July 22, 1941 in Drummond, New Brunswick, Canada) is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the jockey of U.S. Triple Crown Champion, Secretariat Turcotte began his career in Toronto, Ontario as a hot walker for E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm in 1959 but he was soon wearing the silks and winning races. As an apprentice jockey he rode Windfields' great Northern Dancer to his first victory. - John Shirreffs
John Shirreffs (born June 1, 1945 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Based in California, Vietnam War veteran John Shirreffs began training Thoroughbreds in 1978. He has won a number of stakes races with his most important coming in the 2005 Kentucky Derby when Giacomo scored a major upset. In 2007, another Shirreffs-trained horse scored a major upset when Tiago won the Santa Anita Derby. - Bill Shoemaker
William Lee Shoemaker (August 19, 1931 - October 12, 2003) was an American jockey. Referred to as "Bill", "Willie," and "The Shoe", William Lee Shoemaker was born in the town of Fabens, Texas. At 2.5 pounds (1 kg), Shoemaker was so small at birth that he was not expected to survive the night. Put in a shoebox in the oven to stay warm, he survived, but remained small, growing to 4 feet 11 inches (1.50 m) and weighing only 95 pounds (43 kg). - Larry Birkhead
Larry E. Birkhead (born 22 January 1973) is an American entertainment photojournalist who was in a custody battle with Anna Nicole Smith. Birkhead is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and currently resides in Burbank, California. Birkhead is a 1991 graduate of Doss High School in Louisville, and has a twin brother, Lewis, as well as a sister Angela Johnson who lives in Myrtle Beach and half-sister Judy, whose mother is Ruth Denham, in KY. His mother is Nancy, … - Michael Tabor
Michael Tabor (born October 28, 1941, in East London, United Kingdom) made his fortune as owner of a successful chain of English betting shops and owner of a number of race horses. He sold out of that business for about $50-million in 2003, by which time he had already won the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes representing two-thirds of the American Triple Crown with Eclipse Award winner Thunder Gulch. English-born Tabor, who is currently a resident of Monaco, … - Patrick Biancone
Patrick Louis Biancone (born June 7, 1952 in Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He is currently based in the United States, but has enjoyed success in both Europe and Hong Kong earlier in his career. He was the head trainer for the Daniel Wildenstein stable in France where his horses won numerous important races including back-to-back victories in the 1983 and 1984 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. - Chris McCarron
Christopher John "Chris" McCarron (b. March 27 1955, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame retired jockey. He was introduced to the sport of thoroughbred racing by his older brother, jockey Gregg McCarron. Chris McCarron began riding professionally in 1974 at East Coast racetracks where he won the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in the United States. He moved to race in California in 1977, … - Woody Stephens
Woody Stephens (September 1, 1913 - August 22, 1998) was an American thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born Woodford Cefis Stephens in Stanton, Kentucky, he first started as a jockey at age 16 but within a few years switched to training horses. After working as an assistant for several years, in the late 1930s he started training on his own, taking on horses from various owners. - John Servis
John C. Servis (born October 25, 1958 in Charles Town, West Virginia) is an American thoroughbred horse racing trainer who was a relative unknown until May 2004 when his horse Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby. The colt then went on to win the Preakness Stakes further increasing Servis' reputation. Servis trains horses primarily out of Philadelphia Park in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. - Richard Migliore
Richard Migliore (born March 14, 1964 in Babylon, New York) is a top caliber American jockey whose mounts have ranged from Artie Schiller to Big Apple Daddy to Funny Cide. Called "The Mig," which is a type of fighter jet for his tenacious style of riding, he lives with his wife, Carmela, and children in Floral Park, New York, but works wherever the race horses are. - Stewart Elliott
Stewart Elliott (born on March 1, 1965 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a thoroughbred jockey. Elliott grew up in horse racing; his father was a jockey for many years, his mother rode show horses and was a riding instructor, and his uncle owns a racing stable in Canada. Elliott grew up in the United Stastes and began riding professionally at the age of 16, mainly at Philadelphia Park Racetrack, a small racetrack in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - Richard Mandella
Richard Mandella (born November 5, 1950 in Beaumont, California) is a Thoroughbred horse trainer and a member of the Racing Hall of Fame. Mandella's father, a blacksmith, introduced him to horses at an early age and while still in high school he began breaking and training horses at a nearby ranch. He spent a year in New York as assistant to Lefty Nickerson and then took a job with Texas horseman Roger Braugh in 1974. - Laffit Pincay Jr.
Laffit Alejandro Pincay, Jr. (born December 29, 1946 in Panama City, Panama) is a retired jockey who was based primarily in the United States. Laffit Pincay began his riding career in his native Panama. In 1966, prominent horseman Fred W. Hooper and agent Camilo Marin sponsored him to come to the United States and ride under contract. He started his American career at Arlington Park in Chicago and won eight of his first eleven races. During his career, Pincay Jr. - Fernando Jara
Fernando Jara (born December 18, 1987 in Panama) is thoroughbred horse racing jockey in the United States. Jara had become a well-established jockey in Panama at the age of 15 and came to the United States in late December of 2003. - Jorge Chavez
Jorge Chavez (born November 25, 1961 in Callao, Peru) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. Chavez began his career in horse racing in 1982 in his native Peru and by 1987 was his country's leading rider. In April of 1988 he emigrated to the United States where he raced with a great deal of success at Florida race tracks. Moving to New York a few years later, Chavez was the leading rider on the NYRA circuit from 1994 to 1999. - Neil Drysdale
Neil Drysdale "(born 11 December 1947, Haslemere, Surrey, England)" is an American based thoroughbred race horse trainer. Based in Playa Del Rey, California, he has won two Triple Crown races - the Belmont Stakes (G1) with A.P. Indy in 1992 and the Kentucky Derby (G1) with Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2000. - Bill Hartack
William John Hartack Jr. (born December 9, 1932 in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, United States) is a Hall of Fame jockey. Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick Township area of Cambria County, Pennsylvania. Small in stature, at age 17 he stood 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) and weighed 111 lb (50 kg), a size that enabled him to pursue a career as a jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. - Bob Holthus
Robert H. "Bob" Holthus (born June 24, 1934 in Table Rock, Nebraska) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. As a second generation trainer, Holthus learned the profession from his father, Paul Holthus. Holthus is the all-time winningest trainer at Oaklawn Park and as of 2005 had won 11 trainer's titles there. - Tom Durkin
Tom Durkin (b. 1950/1) is an American sportscaster and public address announcer specializing in Thoroughbred horse racing. A native of Chicago, he studied drama at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. He is the race caller for NBC Sports, and has served as the announcer for the New York Racing Association at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course since 1990. Durkin is one of horse racing's most identifiable voices. - Jack van Berg
John Charles Van Berg (born June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska) is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his father is Hall of Fame trainer, Marion Van Berg. In 1976, Jack Van Berg set a record for the most wins in a year with 496. The trainer of Gate Dancer, he was voted the 1984 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer and in 1985 he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. - Chris Antley
Christopher W. Antley (January 6 1966 - December 2 2000) was a Champion American jockey. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida but grew up in Elloree, South Carolina. He left school at sixteen to ride horses professionally at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. His first win was on a horse named Vaya Con Dinero. Soon, he left Maryland to race in New York and New Jersey and at the age of 18 was the United States Champion Jockey by wins with 469. - Eddie Delahoussaye
Edward Delahoussaye (born September 21 1951) was an American thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana. He began his career in 1968 and in ten short years became the top American jockey with 384 wins. He has won the Kentucky Derby in two consecutive years, riding Gato Del Sol in 1982 and Sunny's Halo in 1983; he had finished second in the 1981 Derby. In addition to his wins at the Kentucky Derby, …
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