Hall of Fame jockey, winner of 7,057 races in North America, and a three-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, he is now the agent for jockey John Velazquez.

Birthdate: May 8, 1942, in Santurce, Puerto Rico

Family: sons, Tommy, Angel; daughters, Merly, Julie, Canela

By 2003, Jess Jackson needed a hobby, if that is the word. Jackson wanted something that would take him away from his core business. He had tried a few things along the way, all of them unsatisfactory, costly, or both.

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Jockey Jose Valdivia Jr. after the Belmont.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Hoping to ride the wave of his victory aboard Ruler On Ice in the Belmont Stakes, jockey Jose Valdivia plans to move his tack to New York beginning next week.

Penn National Gaming Inc. has reached an agreement to sell its stake in Pimlico Racecourse and Laurel Park to a company that is being set up by Frank Stronach, according to releases from the companies.

A paper summarizing research on track surfaces and the forces that affect a horse’s limbs while racing was released on Wednesday by the Jockey Club’s Racing Surfaces Committee.

The paper, which was published by the coordinators of the Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory, was distributed on Wednesday to participants in the Annual Track Superintendents’ Field Day Conference, which began on Tuesday and runs through Thursday at Parx Racing in Philadelphia.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The board of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium will meet in late July to discuss how the industry should go forward in addressing concerns that have been raised about the sport's raceday use of the diuretic furosemide to treat bleeding in the lungs, participants in a two-day summit at Belmont Park said on Tuesday at the close of the conference.

ELMONT, N.Y. – As top racing officials met behind closed doors on Tuesday at Belmont Park in an attempt to find common ground over the industry’s raceday use of furosemide to treat bleeding in the lungs, the question that remains is whether the therapeutic benefit of the drug outweighs its perception as a performance-enhancer.

Horsemen with top-class 2-year-olds will now have a fifth option to win a Breeders’ Cup race, a six-furlong sprint on the dirt that Breeders’ Cup announced on Tuesday will be added to the current 14-race lineup at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Nov. 4-5 this year.

Horsemen with top-class 2-year-olds will now have a fifth option to win a Breeders’ Cup race, a six-furlong sprint on the dirt that Breeders’ Cup announced on Tuesday will be added to the current 14-race lineup at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Nov. 4-5 this year.

Bind, the budding Claiborne Farm star who was to race Saturday in the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs, sustained a condylar fracture of the right foreleg during a half-mile workout Monday at Keeneland and will be sidelined for the remainder of the year.