Birthdate - March 25, 1964
Birthplace - Panama City, Panama
Height - 5 feet, 3 inches
Weight - 116 pounds
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
* Won the 2004 Dubai World Cup aboard Pleasantly Perfect.
* Regular rider of Champion Sprinter (2000) Kona Gold.
* Received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1997.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
* Has ridden predominantly in California, but moved his tack East in 2010 and spent his first summer in Saratoga that year.
INTRODUCTION TO RACING
* Visited the track with his father in Panama, graduated in 1981 from what is now the Laffit Pincay, Jr. Jockey School.
FIRST WINNER
* Bionica, November 7, 1981, Hipódromo Presidente Remón, Panama
MAJOR NEW YORK STAKES WINS
Acorn: Bushfire (2006)
Carter H.: Pico Central (2004)
Empire Classic: Friend Or Foe (2010)
Forego: Here Comes Ben (2010)
Glens Falls: Emerald Beech (2011)
Gotham: Red Bullet (2000)
Honorable Miss: Tar Heel Mom (2011)
Jim Dandy: Ecton Park (1999)
Jockey Club Gold Cup Inv.: Flat Out (2011)
Manhattan H.: Beat Hollow (2002)
Metropolitan Handicap: Pico Central (2004)
Pilgrim: Shkspeare Shaliyah (2011)
Suburban: Flat Out (2011)
Wood Memorial: Captain Bodgit (1997)
TRIPLE CROWN & BREEDERS’ CUP WINS
Preakness: Snow Chief (1986)
Classic: Pleasantly Perfect (2003)
Turf: Johar (DH with High Chaparral, 2003)
Sprint: Kona Gold (2000)