

Get Expert Gulfstream Park Picks for today’s races. Login Sign Up Tickets Calendar Racing News Horsemen About Visit Bet Now. In 1987, at age 56, Shoemaker won the Breeders’ Cup Classic aboard Ferdinand at Hollywood Park. Gulfstream Park opened in 1939 and ran the first Florida Derby in 1952. celebrates after Mo Donegal won the 154th running of the. Bill Shoemaker, who captured the Kentucky Derby four times, won 8,833 races in a career that spanned more than 40 years. and Joel Rosario have each been handed a three-day suspension for careless riding at Saratoga, reports. The son of Violence breezed a half-mile in 50.72 under regular jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. Ortiz was thrown off a horse during a race. The Todd Pletcher-trained 2022 Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old male breezed for the first time since his tour de force 2023 debut in the 400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) March 4 at Gulfstream Park. The Shoemaker Award is named in honor of one of the greatest jockeys in the history of Thoroughbred racing. is out of the Belmont Stakes after a scary fall while racing but seems to have escaped long-term injury. Ortiz’s victories came on Pizza Bianca in Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) and Aloha West in the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1). Rosario took the richest race of the weekend, the $6 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) with Knicks Go and Friday’s NetJets Juvenile Fillies (G1). Two other riders posted multiple wins: Joel Rosario and Jose Ortiz. Ortiz won the first Championship race of the weekend on Twilight Gleaming (IRE) in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G2) and then added Saturday victories in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) with Golden Pal and the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) with Life Is Good.īuick also had one victory Friday on Modern Games (IRE) in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) and then two on Saturday with Space Blues (IRE) in the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) presented by PDJF and Yibir (GB) in the Longines Turf (G1). Ortiz and William Buick both won three races, but Ortiz also had a runner-up finish and three fourth-place finishes while Buick finished fifth with his only other mount.

The Shoemaker Award goes to the jockey who won the most races in the 14 World Championship races this weekend with the tiebreaker being a 10-3-1 point system for second- through fourth-place finishes. won his fourth consecutive Bill Shoemaker Award, given to the most outstanding jockey at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar. Wins Fourth Consecutive Bill Shoemaker Award
