Jose Lezcano

Birthdate: April 20, 1985

Birthplace: Chiriquí, Panama

Height: 5 feet, 3 inches

Weight: 112 pounds

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

On the inaugural Stars & Stripes Day at Belmont in 2014, won the $1 million Belmont Derby Invitational aboard Mr Speaker and the Belmont Sprint Championship with Clearly Now
In 2013, rode Horse of the Year Wise Dan to three victories, including his second straight Breeders’ Cup Mile
Won his first Breeders’ Cup race aboard his first mount, Maram, in the inaugural running of the Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2008

INTRODUCTION TO RACING

Lezcano began riding on his father’s farm before attending the Laffit Pincay Jockey School

FIRST WINNER

Cloudy Gray, March 14, 2004, Gulfstream Park

NYRA Career Stats

Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Earnings
5492	840	757	729	$63,266,858

Recent Years

Year	Starts	1st	2nd	3rd	Earnings
2020	379	61	58	63	$3,802,935
2019	1051	210	155	132	$13,847,021
2018	658	73	73	85	$5,225,337
2017	461	55	46	52	$3,978,024
2016	562	59	78	71	$4,919,654
2015	503	74	59	69	$6,872,957
2014	551	82	86	88	$7,544,076
2013	644	109	94	75	$9,092,695
2012	683	117	108	94	$7,984,159