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Post by Evelyn on Oct 30, 2014 16:23:57 GMT -5
I'm putting this here to keep the BC board for racing.
Breeders' Cup to Honor Top Jockey By Blood-Horse Staff
The Breeders' Cup will again present the most outstanding jockey of the Breeders' Cup World Championships with the Bill Shoemaker Award based on competition in the 13 races Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Santa Anita Park.
Hall of Fame Jockey Mike Smith, the two-time defending winner of the award, has 10 mounts in this year's Breeders' Cup, including morning-line favorites Shared Belief in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) and Judy the Beauty in $1 million DraftKings Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I), both grade I.
The Shoemaker Award is based on a 10-5-3-1 scoring system for first through fourth-place finishes in each of the World Championships races.
The Bill Shoemaker Award is named in honor of one of the greatest jockeys in the history of Thoroughbred racing. Shoemaker, who captured the Kentucky Derby four times, won more than 8,800 races in a career that spanned more than 40 years. In 1987, at 56, Shoemaker won the Breeders' Cup Classic aboard Ferdinand.
Bill Shoemaker Award winners:
2003: Alex Solis 2004: John Velazquez 2005: Garrett Gomez 2006: Frankie Dettori 2007: Garrett Gomez 2008: Garrett Gomez 2009: Julien Leparoux 2010: Garrett Gomez 2011: John Velazquez 2012: Mike Smith 2013: Mike Smith
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Post by Evelyn on Nov 4, 2014 22:13:49 GMT -5
Velazquez Honored as Top Breeders' Cup Rider Bloodhorse
Propelled by five top-three finishes, including a victory in the $3 million Longines Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. I) on Flaxman Holding's Main Sequence, two-time Eclipse champion jockey John Velazquez won his third Bill Shoemaker Award as most outstanding Breeders' Cup jockey in races Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at Santa Anita Park.
In addition to his aforementioned victory, the 42-year-old native of Carolina, Puerto Rico, was second in the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) on WinStar Farm and Stonestreet Stables' Carpe Diem and the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT) on Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Stephanie's Kitten, while also third in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. I) on Wes Welker's Undrafted and the DraftKings Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I) on the Ramseys Thank You Marylou.
The victory on Main Sequence was his 13th Breeders' Cup win. The Hall of Famer's 26-point total edged Javier Castellano and Rosie Napravnik by six points in a 10-5-3-1 scoring system based on the first- through fourth-place finishes in the 13 Breeders' Cup races. In a mistake made after Saturday's races, Castellano initially was presented the Shoemaker Award.
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