Boyce notches 1,000th career victory

Jockey Forest Boyce earned her 1,000th career victory after she guided Determined Driver to a win in Friday's seventh race at Laurel Park.

Trained by Phil Schoenthal, Determined Driver, the 2-1 second choice in the first-level allowance for 3-year-old fillies, settled off the pace, angled three wide into the stretch, then ran down odds-on favorite I'm a Cutie Pie in the final furlong.

Determined Driver was Boyce's second winner on the Friday card. She booted home first-time starter Midsummers Eve ($13) to a last-to-first win in the third race.

"I really appreciate all the support I've had this winter," Boyce said in a post-race interview broadcast by Laurel Park. "I've been pigeon-holed a bit as a turf rider, and everyone has helped me out and put me on some nice dirt horses in some good spots. It's been fun."

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A Maryland native, Boyce, 39, was a runner-up for an Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice in 2010. She was the leading jockey in Maryland that year with 104 victories at Laurel and Pimlico Race Course.

She has piloted five graded stakes winners with the latest coming in the 2018 Grade 3 Baltimore-Washington Turf Cup aboard the Shug McGaughey-trained Doctor Mounty.

Boyce and McGaughey also teamed up in 2015 to win the Grade 3 Commonwealth Oaks with Onus. Boyce's first graded win came aboard Nellie Cashman in the 2013 Grade 3 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs.

Last year, Boyce rode 46 winners from 344 mounts and earned $2,376,520 in purse money.

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