Jockeys'Guild

Congratulations to FLAVIEN PRAT on earning the @JockeysGuild Jockey of the Week 3/9-3/15! 🏆 Prat rode at a tremendous 47% clip last week with 9 wins from 19 mounts! He had 5 wins on Saturday at @ColonialDowns including the Royal New Kent S. aboard Tour Player, the Sandy Bottom S. with Eunomia and a dominating 4 1/4 length win in the Virginia Oaks aboard Battle of Rouge. The reigning Eclipse Award champion is winning at 29% so far in 2026 from 189 mounts. Check out his trainer profile on Equibase for more statistics: equibase.com/profiles/Resul… 📸Coady Media

Jockey Of The Week: Flavien Prat Records 5-Win Day At Colonial Downs paulickreport.com/news/people/jo…

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Jockey who suffered a broken ankle and other injuries in January has started physical therapy but is still a long way from a return to the saddle: tinyurl.com/5xrds8wb

Our @FanDuel_Racing Jockey of the Week is Flavien Prat. He won 9 of his 19 mounts (47%) this past week and won 3 stakes races at @ColonialDowns on Saturday.

Irad Ortiz Jr. scheduled to resume riding here Thursday although that could be a game day decision per his agent. Ortiz will ride his final day locally on Sunday. He'll be at Oaklawn Park on 28th, giving up mount on Commandment in Fla. D., to ride Renegade in the Arkansas Derby

Jockey Umberto Rispoli, sidelined with a broken right ankle since Jan. 24, is "still a ways away" from returning to the saddle, his agent Matt Nakatani said March 15. Read more: go.bloodhorse.com/4seb51r

Track’s leading jockey several years ago has been based in Louisiana and his return to Hot Springs coincides with hiring a new agent: tinyurl.com/cptj5nvf

👉 Jaramillo Tearing It Up at Santa Anita 👉 Speaking of Hot Riders, It Was a Huge Week for Pietro Moran 👉 Read the full article from @theTDN: thoroughbreddailynews.com/the-week-in-re…

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He’s still got it. John Velazquez became the second-oldest jockey in Oaklawn history to win a 7-figure race when he guided Class President to a nose decision over Silent Tactic in the $1 million Rebel Stakes (G2) for 3-year-olds. Read more: oaklawn.com/racing/news/3-…

The @fairgroundsnola meet leaderboard heading into Thursday’s card. @jose93_ortiz with a 21-win advantage at the top. Is nine-for-last 17 (W53%) at the FG since March 5. @jockeypedrozajr (54) with a victory on Monday to follow a hat trick on last Sunday’s card. @_benacurtis with 47 at the meet after weekend wins to go third overall. @Pacolopez1018 (45) sidelined since spill on February 7. @icastillojockey rounds out the top 5 after going three-for-three on Monday’s matinee. Trainer @mjsharp75_joe (42) with another gold medal. Won the title last year with 40. Had three wins and a pair of seconds on Sunday from five starters. Bret Calhoun equaled his win total from the 2024-25 meet with 25. This season winning in town at 18% versus 16% from a meet ago. @SWRacingStables, the leading trainer at the 2023-24 meet (50 wins), locked in a battle for the bronze (21-20) with @bradcoxracing, who won four consecutive FG titles from 2016-2020.

Ortiz was aboard the first-time starter A Moment a Love when she jumped the inside rail and unseated the rider: tinyurl.com/3hz94aw7

Jockey Of The Week: Juan Hernandez Wins Four Graded Stakes During Birthday Weekend sports.yahoo.com/articles/jocke…

The award-winning jockey is approaching a career milestone, but calls April 19, 2023 — the start of lasting sobriety — his real victory: tinyurl.com/y3znnbn5 @BreedersCup

Currently ranked fourth in the jockey standings at Oaklawn, Saez is moving back to Florida so he can spend more time with his family: tinyurl.com/ms9n4xnr

How do these racing rock stars look about the same now as they did over a decade ago? 🧐😆 Irad Ortiz, Jose Ortiz, and Manny Franco, at Saratoga in 2015

Our @FanDuel_Racing Jockey of the Week is @JJHernandezS19. He had 7 wins, including winning 3 graded stakes.

After a couple months into the year @iradortiz has the most wins by a jockey in North America with 69 wins. Will he end the year with the most wins? Here are the top 5.

Hernandez pulls off another rare three-stakes-win day drf.com/news/hernandez…