Franco goes 6 for 7 at Aqueduct on Friday
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Manny Franco tied a New York Racing Association record by riding six winners on one card Friday at Aqueduct.
Franco went 6 for 7 on the nine-race card, booting home Uncorrelated ($6.10) in the opener, Quick Chaos ($12.20) in the fourth, Vallarand ($4.70) in the fifth, Baron’s Legacy ($18.80) in the sixth, Kant Hurry Love ($6.60) in the eighth, and Bourbon Calling ($13.40) in the ninth. His lone loss on the card came aboard Wild Banker, who finished sixth in race 7.
Franco had ridden five winners on a NYRA card four times.
Franco became just the 18h jockey to win six races on one card at a NYRA track, joining a list that includes Steve Cauthen (three times), Ramon Dominguez (three times), Mike Smith (twice), Ron Turcotte (twice), and Bill Shoemaker. Eriic Cancel (March 2021) and Irad Ortiz Jr. (April 2021) were the most recent to do it.. Only Jorge Velasquez won six races with fewer mounts, going 6 for 6 at Belmont on July 9, 1981.
“I’m so proud of myself to be on that list,” said Franco, who was the leading rider on this circuit in wins in 2018 and 2019. “When I graduated from [jockey] school, I just wanted to do something that everybody would remember who I was when I was riding, so that’s a dream come true.”
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