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Jockey Edgar Prado and Street Sense trainer Carl Nafzger, who between them have 3 Kentucky Derby wins, led a group of 6 new inductees into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame on Monday.
Inducted with jockey Edgar Prado and race horse trainer Carl Nafzger were retired jockey Ismael Valenzuela and three race horses: Manila, Inside Information and Ancient Title.
“I want to thank God for making me 5-foot-3 and 114 pounds so all this could happen,” jockey Edgar Prado said to an appreciative, capacity crowd gathered at the Hall across the street from Saratoga Race Course, home of the 2008 Travers Stakes.
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Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux recorded his 5,000th win aboard favored Bella Attrice in the 7th race at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday, July 27, and became the 23rd jockey to reach the 5,000-win mark.
“I’m in awe of the number. Five thousand. Wow!” jockey Kent Desormeaux said.
It has been an eventful year for jockey Kent Desormeaux, who guided Big Brown to wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. But after the colt finished last in the Belmont Stakes, Desormeaux was criticized by race horse trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.
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Jockey Jose Lezcano tied a Monmouth Park record by riding 6 winners on Sunday, including Coli Bear in the $70,000 Blue Sparkler Stakes.
Jose Lezcano, who now leads the track’s rider standings with 42 victories, won the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th races on Monmouth Park’s June 22 horse racing card. He tied the mark first set by Walter Blum in 1961, then equaled in 1984 by Chris Antley, in 1987 by Julie Krone and by Joe Bravo in 1994, 2002, 2005 and 2006.
The record-tying performance came a day after jockey Jose Lezcano, a 23-year-old native of Panama, escaped serious injury when he was unseated by his mount during a race.
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Jockey Shaun Bridgmohan suffered minor injuries in a spill in the first race Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. He was taken to Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville for x-rays, which revealed no broken bones or serious injuries, according to his agent Doc Danner.
Bridgmohan, who will turn 29 on Tuesday, was riding Vinstar for owner Stonestreet Stable and horse trainer Steve Asmussen. Vinstar appeared to take a bad step near the sixteenth pole in the six-furlong sprint and Bridgmohan was dropped in the process of trying to pull the colt up.
The rider appeared to have been kicked by a trailing horse as he rolled under the rail. Bridgmohan was taken to First Aid complaining of pain in his left leg and right arm before being transported to the hospital.
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Big Brown’s trainer, Richard Dutrow, Jr., believes that jockey Kent Desormeaux’s ride in the 2008 Belmont Stakes last Saturday, June 7, at Belmont Park cost Big Brown the Triple Crown.
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown was eased in the final quarter-mile of the Belmont Stakes by jockey Kent Desormeaux and failed to finish the race.
If Big Brown is healthy, the plan is for him to run next in the Travers Stakes on August 23 at Saratoga. where horse racing fans might see a rematch between 2008 Belmont Stakes winner Da’ Tara and Big Brown.
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Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown’s trainer Richard Dutrow, Jr. had some words for Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado during the Preakness.
Asked on Wednesday to elaborate on comments made after Big Brown’s win Saturday, horse trainer Richard Dutrow suggested that jockey Edgar Prado, on long shot Riley Tucker, needlessly tried to block Big Brown, who heads into the Belmont Stakes with a shot at the Triple Crown.
Jockey Edgar Prado claims he did nothing inappropriate.
“It looked like he was just trying to keep our horse in the box,” horse trainer Richard Dutrow said. “It didn’t look like he was out to get the best finish out of his horse.”
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Horse trainer Kazou Fujisawa and owner Hidetoshi Yamamoto are still deciding on a rider to replace jockey Kent Desormeaux, who rode Casino Drive to a 5 3/4 length victory in the Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) at Belmont Park last May 10, in the 2008 Belmont Stakes.
Jockey Kent Desormeaux has ridden Big Brown in four straight starts, including a 5 1/4-length victory in the Preakness Stakes on May 17 at Pimlico Race Course. The son of Boundary, Big Brown, also won by 4 3/4 lengths under Desormeaux in the Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs. Big Brown seeks to become horse racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner with a win in the Belmont Stakes.
A half brother to 2006 Belmont Stakes winner Jazil and three-quarter brother to 2007 Belmont Stakes winner and champion three-year-old filly Rags to Riches,
Casino Drive may join Algerine (1876) and Prince Eugene (1913) as horses that won the Belmont Stakes in their third career starts.
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Recently entered into the Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado took a spill on the 7th race at Keeneland on April 23 and was sent to the University of Kentucky Medical Center for X-rays. He was released the same day.
The Peruvian jockey, Edgar Prado, was riding Richard Thompson’s 3-year-old Diktat filly bred in Britain, May Meeting, to her 5th start in the 1 1/8-mile allowance race on turf. She dropped Prado soon after the start, but did not appear to be injured, according to reports from Keeneland.
May Meeting is trained by H. Graham Motion who also trains Adriano, Courtlandt Farms’s 2008 Kentucky Derby starter and the colt jockey Edgar Prado will ride in the 2008 Kentucky Derby.
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Jockey Edgar Prado, who rode Barbaro to victory in the 2006 Kentucky Derby, and horse trainer Carl Nafzger were elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame on Monday.
Also elected were jockey Ismael “Milo” Valenzuela and horses Inside Information, Manila and Ancient Title.
Forty-year-old Edgar Prado led the nation in victories in consecutive years from 1997-97. In 2006, he guided the late Barbaro to a win in the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs on his way to winning the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top jockey.
Horse trainer Carl Nafzger, 67, has conditioned champions such as Unbridled, Banshee Breeze and Street Sense, last year’s Kentucky Derby winner, during his career.
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Jockey Eibar Coa holds a lead of one over John Velazquez in the Gulfstream Park rider standings at 63-62 going into Friday’s 62nd program of the meet, but their rivalry will have a one-day hiatus Saturday when both travel to Tampa Bay Downs for stakes mounts.
Jockey Jose Lezcano currently ranks 3rd with 43 winners and also will make the trip to Tampa Bay Downs. Kent Desormeaux, 4th at 42, and Edgar Prado, 5th with 40, will stay at Gulfstream Park throughout the weekend.
Jockey Cornelio Velasquez is the defending Gulfstream Park champion from 2007 and ranks 7th at this meet with 29 tallies, and he too will be in action at Tampa Bay Downs Saturday with mounts including Robert La Penta’s undefeated Eclipse Award juvenile champion War Pass in the $300,000 Tampa Bay Derby (gr. III).
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