Twenty-year-old jockey Jeiron Barbosa will shift his tack from Laurel to the Fair Grounds in New Orleans for the meet that begins November 22.
For jockeys Jeiron Barbosa and Angel Cruz and agent Tom Stiff, an August trip to Jamaica’s Caymanas Park track was a working vacation – and a revelation.
Young jockey Jeiron Barbosa has accomplished a lot in a short time, and Saturday he’ll aim for his first Maryland Million win.
Jockeys Angel Cruz and Jeiron Barbosa deadheated for the Laurel Park fall riding title, while Brittany Russell took home the training title.
Apprentice rider Jeiron Barbosa walked away with only an injured wrist after an incident at Parx Racing that saw four riders unseated.
Jeiron Barbosa, an 18-year-old apprentice jockey from Puerto Rico, made a splash his first day Stateside, winning with his first two Laurel Park mounts.
Jockey Charlie Marquez, who lost his apprentice allowance at the end of May, has continued his winning ways thus far during the Pimlico meet.
Jockeys Victor Carrasco and Jose Ferrer will be out quite a while as they recuperate from injuries sustained in a Delaware Park spill September 14.
Jomar Torres’ first interaction with horses came from the ground up — as a farrier. Now he’s a rising young jockey thriving in the mid-Atlantic.
Pimlico’s opening day Thursday will coincide with the return from injury of jockey Victor Carrasco, who missed about five weeks with a fractured scapula.