Gulfstream Park

Gaffalione gets his 1,000th win at home track

Mike Welsch|Dec 31, 2018

Barbara D. Livingston Tyler Gaffalione won the riding title at last year’s Gulfstream spring-summer meet and is second in the standings this year.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Tyler Gaffalione rode the 1,000th winner of his career Sunday, winning the seventh race aboard first-time starter Mission from Elle. The victory was the second on the day for Gaffalione, 24, who rode his first career winner, Holdin Bullets, at Gulfstream Park on Sept. 7, 2014.

Gaffalione, the 2015 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice, won the 2018 summer meet riding title here as well as the fall jockey championships at both Keeneland and Churchill Downs.

Mission from Elle was Gaffalione’s 253rd winner in 2018.

“It’s such a blessing, especially to have it happen here,” said Gaffalione, a native of Davie, Fla. “I grew up here. This is my home track.”

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