Turfway Park
Garcia spending winter at Turfway
Michael Amoruso Alan Garcia will be riding the inner-track meet at Aqueduct for the first time in five years.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Alan Garcia, a Woodbine mainstay in recent years, intends to ride this winter at Turfway Park, which opens Wednesday for nearly four months of action. Garcia will be represented by agent Jimmy McNerney, who also will book mounts for Albin Jimenez.
Among the major races won by Garcia, a 34-year-old Peru native, were the 2007 BC Filly and Mare Turf on Lahudood, the 2008 Belmont Stakes on Da’ Tara, and the 2013 Arlington Million on Real Solution.
With substantially bigger purses this year, Turfway is attracting jockeys and trainers who in recent years have gone elsewhere for the winter. The northern Kentucky track was purchased in October by Churchill Downs Inc.
