Jose Lezcano

Birth Date
April 20, 1985
Birthplace
Chiriquí, Panama
Height
5 feet, 3 inches
Weight
112lbs

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 

Starts
9,025
1sts
1,438
2nds
1,296
3rds
1,291
Earnings
$106,389,921
Starts 1sts 2nds 3rds Earnings
2025 128 25 23 21 $1,296,519
2024 799 129 127 105 $9,597,478
2023 675 130 106 109 $9,067,007
2022 862 129 131 135 $10,479,710
2021 776 110 97 118 $8,384,249
2020 781 137 114 136 $8,424,864
2019 990 208 154 130 $13,628,761
2018 618 69 70 83 $4,881,429
2017 451 56 46 52 $4,011,024
2016 562 59 78 72 $4,925,924
2015 503 74 59 69 $6,872,957
2014 551 82 86 88 $7,544,076
2013 637 109 94 75 $9,092,695
2012 663 117 108 94 $7,984,159