Jose Lezcano

April 20, 1985
Chiriquí, Panama
5 feet, 3 inches
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
9,025
1,438
1,296
1,291
$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 |