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Jockey Aaron Gryder, who rode Well Armed to victory in the $6-million Dubai World Cup this year, is moving his riding career from Southern California to Hong Kong.
Aaron Gryder said Tuesday he’s been invited to ride under contract for the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The 39-year-old jockey has ridden 3,218 winners and has purse earnings of more than $109 million since he began riding in 1987.
But he struggled during the recently ended Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita Park, where he finished out of the top 15 in the jockeys’ standings.
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By GREG MELIKOV
Five new honorees will be inducted into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Saturday at Retama Park.
The new members are racing legends Harold V. Goodman and Jeff Carr, plus three horses. In addition, former Texas Sen. O. H. “Ike” Carr of Dallas will receive the JoAnn Weber Distinguished Service Award.
Goodman, a prominent horse owner and breeder, was 1994 Texas Breeder of the Year. His Two Altazano, one of the few Texas-bred fillies to win a Grade 1, captured four graded thoroughbred stakes 15 years ago.
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Jockey Tyler Baze is expected to be sidelined for a week after breaking his finger when he was unseated by his mount at Del Mar, where he is the second-leading rider.
Tyler Baze is wearing a cast on his broken left pinky finger. His mount unseated him Saturday, then ran off and was scratched from the day’s final race.
His agent says jockey Tyler Baze will have to give up mounts on Monterey Jazz in the $300,000 Del Mar Mile on August 29 and the $250,000 Del Mar Handicap, a Breeders’ Cup 2009 Challenge race on August 30.
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Three-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Friday along with trainer Janet Eliot, jockey Eddie Maple and 3 race horses.
Race horse trainer Bob Baffert, winner of 3 Eclipse Awards as the nation’s outstanding trainer, won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness with Silver Charm, Real Quiet and War Emblem. He has trained the winners of eight Triple Crown races, seven Breeders’ Cup races and developed 10 champions, including Silverbulletday, who was among Friday’s inductees.
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Race horse trainer Gary Stute said Thursday that he’s “95% sure” that Bo Hirsch’s Arkansas Derby winner Papa Clem will make his next start in Sunday’s 2009 Haskell Invitational (G1) August 2 at Monmouth Park.
“It’s almost definite we’re going” Gary Stute said from his Santa Anita base. “The only thing we’re not sure of right now is the jockey.”
Jockey Rafael Bejarano, who became Papa Clem’s regular rider last year and was aboard in the colt’s Arkansas Derby victory, was injured in a spill at Del Mar on Wednesday, suffering facial fractures.
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Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith will ride the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird in the $750,000 West Virginia Derby and the $1-million Travers Stakes 2009 next month.
Jockey Mike Smith takes over for jockey Calvin Borel, who guided the 3-year-old gelding Mine That Bird to a longshot win in the Kentucky Derby and later added a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes.
Mike Smith guided Mine That Bird to second-place in the Preakness after Calvin Borel opted to ride filly Rachel Alexandra, which edged Mine That Bird for the win.
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Jockey Rene Douglas may be paralyzed after being thrown from his mount during a race at Arlington Park, his agent Dennis Cooper said.
Dennis Cooper said jockey Rene Douglas spent 7 hours in surgery on Sunday at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital and afterward doctors told him his client could not feel his lower limbs. Cooper said doctors won’t know Douglas’ status for certain until swelling reduces in about two weeks.
“They said he might not walk again … he’ll probably have use of his upper body, but they gave it to me straight that he’s not likely to walk,” Cooper told Bloodhorse.com.
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Speculation and anticipation grows for the Belmont Stakes 2009.
When jockey Calvin Borel and Jess Jackson decided to race filly Rachel Alexandra at the Preakness instead of the horse they won the Kentucky Derby with, ‘Mine that Bird’, critics were up in arms calling the decision reckless and disloyal to the world of horse racing for abandoning a shot at the coveted Triple Crown.
After jockey Calvin Borel won with the new horse at the Preakness Stakes however, those critics started singing a different tune and are now eager with anticipation for the Belmont stakes and a potential history making ‘Calvin Crown’.
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Race horse trainer Bob Baffert, who saddled 3 Kentucky Derby winners, was elected Monday to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. The induction ceremonies are on August 14.
Bob Baffert won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness with Silver Charm, Real Quiet and War Emblem, but failed to complete the Triple Crown sweep in the Belmont Stakes each time. Baffert has trained the winners of 8 Triple Crown races, 7 Breeders’ Cup races and has handled 10 champions, including Silverbulletday.
Other horse racing Hall of Fame inductees announced by the museum in Saratoga Springs are jockey Eddie Maple, steeplechase trainer Janet Elliot and race horses Ben Nevis II, Tiznow and Silverbulletday, a mare trained by Bob Baffert.
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Blue Grass Stakes winner General Quarters will be ridden by jockey Julien Leparoux in the 2009 Kentucky Derby 135 on May 2 at Churchill Downs.
General Quarters surprised the Blue Grass Stakes field in last week with jockey Eibar Coa aboard, but owner/trainer Tom McCarthy decided to give the Kentucky Derby start to jockey Julien Leparoux after jockey Eibar Coa refused to commit to General Quarters for the Kentucky Derby.
Jockey Eibar Coa is also the regular rider for one of the probable Kentucky Derby entries, Musket Man, winner of the Illinois Derby.
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