Portland Meadows jockeys challenge riders from Southern California

Local jockeys Joe Crispin, Mark Anderson, Javier Matias and Troy Stillwell will represent Portland Meadows against Team Southern California in the annual XpressBet Jockey Challenge on Monday, Nov. 29.

Representing Southern California in the four-race competition with $20,000 in prize money at stake will be Joel Rosario, David Flores, Joe Talamo, and Martin Pedroza.

An autograph session featuring the jockeys will be held at 11:30 a.m. First post is 12:40 p.m. Pacific with the Jockey Challenge in races 4 through 7. Portland Meadows jockeys defeated Northern California jockeys in last year’s Jockey Challenge.