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Irad Ortiz, Jr.

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Birthdate: August 11, 1992
Birthplace: Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
Height: 5 feet, 3 inches
Weight: 112 pounds

NEW YORK RIDING TITLES

  • 2017 New York, 296 winners
  • 2017 Belmont fall, 51
  • 2017 Aqueduct spring, 30
  • 2017 Aqueduct inner track, 76 
  • 2016 Belmont fall, 48 (tie)
  • 2015 New York, 281
  • 2015 Saratoga, 57
  • 2015 Belmont fall, 50
  • 2015 Aqueduct fall, 30
  • 2014 New York, 278 
  • 2014 Belmont fall, 46
  • 2014 Belmont spring/summer, 51 (tie)
  • 2013-14 Aqueduct inner track, 83
  • 2012-13 Aqueduct inner track, 79

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Won back-to-back riding titles in New York in 2014 and 2015 with 278 and 281 winners, respectively and added his third year-end crown in 2017 with 296 winners
  • Won two Breeders’ Cup races in 2015, aboard Stephanie’s Kitten in the Filly & Mare Turf and Lady Shipman in the Turf Sprint and captured his third career Breeders’ Cup victory aboard Bar of Gold in the Filly & Mare Sprint. 
  • Participated in the 2014 Longines International Jockey Competition
  • Saratoga’s leading rider for Grade 1 wins in 2012 with three (Coaching Club American Oaks and Alabama with Questing, Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap with Poseidon’s Warrior)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Began his riding career at Hipódromo Camarero in Puerto Rico on New Year’s Day,     2011, and rode there until June, winning 76 of his 357 mounts with earnings of $453,845
  • Pito Rosa, a NYRA peace officer who works in the jockeys’ room, took notice of Ortiz’s success in Puerto Rico and asked New York-based agent Tony Micallef if he’d be interested in carrying the rider’s book. Micallef accepted, and Ortiz rode his first race at Belmont Park on June 17, 2011 and had his first U.S. victory one week later aboard Millennium Jet on June 24

INTRODUCTION TO RACING

  • Grandfather, also named Irad Ortiz, was a jockey, as was uncle Ivan Ortiz. Irad Ortiz,
  • Jr. attended Puerto Rico’s Escuela Vocacional Hípica, a school for prospective jockeys

FIRST WINNER

  • Wild Logic, Jan. 2, 2011, Hipódromo Camarero in Puerto Rico

NYRA Career Stats

Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings
15683 3105 2636 2317 $247,340,804.00

Recent Years

Year Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings
2023 452 114 67 61 $6,442,935.00
2019 1548 323 311 222 $33,782,132
2018 1181 239 191 186 $22,043,561
2017 1431 296 270 219 $19,754,544
2016 1463 296 268 218 $21,444,524
2015 1349 281 209 192 $19,158,911
2014 1418 278 235 216 $18,697,542
2013 1536 223 199 258 $14,062,331
2012 1259 125 156 161 $7,414,658
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