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Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza (born May 23, 1972) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who won the Triple Crown in 2015 on American Pharoah. He began riding in his native Mexico and went on to compete at racetracks in California. He has won the Kentucky Derby three times, riding War Emblem in 2002, California Chrome in 2014, and American Pharoah in 2015. He also won the Preakness Stakes three times, in those same years and with the same horses. He was the first jockey in history to enter the Belmont Stakes with a third opportunity to win the Triple Crown, finally winning the elusive honor in 2015—becoming the oldest jockey and first Hispanic jockey to win the award.
==Background and early career==
Espinoza was born on a dairy farm in Hidalgo, Mexico, the eleventh of twelve children.〔 He and his brother José, his senior by three years, rode horses on the farm; when he was 15 he left home and traveled to Cancún to assist his brother as a Quarter Horse trainer.〔 He paid for jockey school by driving a bus in Mexico City at age 17.〔 Within a few years, Espinoza was racing Thoroughbreds at Mexico City's track, Hipódromo de las Américas.〔〔
Espinoza did not speak English〔 when he came to the United States in 1990. He moved to Northern California in 1992, where by 1994 he was the leading apprentice rider at the Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields racetracks.〔 At the Bay area tracks, he started out very poor and lived in a tack room at the stables. Espinoza was described as "just a hardworking kid who was out there every day...But he kept getting better and better, and soon people started seeing the talent he had."〔
A year later, he moved to Los Angeles.〔 His big break came in 2000 when he won the Breeders' Cup Distaff aboard Spain.〔 He rode his first Kentucky Derby in 2001, placing third on Congaree,〔 and in 2002, he won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes atop War Emblem. Between 2000 and 2006 he averaged 193 wins a year and twice finished third in total earnings among jockeys.〔 However, his career entered a slump until he decided to refocus. As he explained, "One day, I woke up and I said 'This is not how I'm going to end up my career." He hired a new agent in January 2013, Brian Beach, and with a change in motivation went on to obtain his 3,000th career win, aboard Flashy Delight, on May 31, 2013, at Betfair Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California. After winning the 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes on California Chrome, in June 2014 Espinoza traveled to Britain to win the Windsor Castle Stakes at the Royal Ascot meeting on the Wesley A. Ward-trained colt Hootenanny.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.the-racehorse.com/racing/news/hootenanny_stretches_clear_in_the_windsor_castle_stakes )〕
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