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John R. Velazquez : ウィキペディア英語版
John R. Velazquez

John R. Velazquez (born November 24, 1971, in Carolina, Puerto Rico) is a jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. Admitted to the Horse Racing Hall of fame in 2012, , he is the all-time leading money-earning jockey in North America.〔http://www.paulickreport.com/news/the-biz/velazquez-jockeys-should-speak-for-the-sport/〕
He learned to ride in his native Puerto Rico. On January 3, 1990, he won his first race, aboard Rodas at El Nuevo Comandante racetrack in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. That same year, under the guidance of agent and former jockey, Angel Cordero, Jr., he moved to New York State where he has earned 24 riding titles at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course.
A winner of multiple Breeders' Cup races, he has also won graded stakes races such as the Kentucky Oaks, Blue Grass Stakes, Dubai World Cup, E. P. Taylor Stakes (twice), Whitney Handicap, Woodbine Mile, plus the Cigar Mile Handicap. To date in his career, John Velazquez has ridden more than 4,000 winners. In 2004 and 2005 he was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 2004 and 2005.〔McGee, Marty. ("35th Annual Eclipse Awards" ). ''Daily Racing Form'', January 23, 2006. Retrieved on May 4, 2013.〕
In 2004, he won the Bill Shoemaker Award for top Breeders' Cup performance by a jockey, winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff with Ashado and the Breeders' Cup Sprint with Speightstown.
Velazquez set a Saratoga record with six wins in one card on September 3, 2001.〔''USA Today''. ("Velazquez rides record six winners at Saratoga" ). Associated Press, September 3, 2001. Retrieved on May 4, 2013.〕
In 2006, he was elected to the Puerto Rico Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
In 2009, Velazquez, known at tracks as "Johnny V," was awarded the Santa Anita George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. That same year, he led Quality Road to a win at the Florida Derby, knocking off the previously unbeaten Dunkirk in the process. Ironically, he rode Dunkirk to his second-place finish in the Grade l Belmont Stakes.〔(Record Victory in Dubai in World's Richest Race ), nytimes.com, 28 March 2009, accessed 29 March 2008.〕
In October 13, 2013, Velazquez became the all-time leading money winner among North American jockeys, surpassing Pat Day in the ninth race at Belmont, aboard the filly Bit Bustin. After that race, his earnings reached $297,922,320 in career purses.〔(Velazquez Becomes Top Money-Earning Rider ), bloodhorse.com, 13 October 2013, accessed 14 October 2013.〕 The next year, Velazquez became the all-time leading money winner in the history of jockeying and the first whose earnings surpass $300 million.
==2007 Belmont Stakes==

In the 2007 Belmont Stakes, Velazquez earned his first win in a Triple Crown race when he rode Rags to Riches to a victory that made her the first filly to win the race since 1905.

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