• Born: May 26, 1963, New Orleans, La.
  
• Resident: Metairie, La.
  
• Height: 5'5"
  
• Weight: 116
  
• Family: wife Dottie, son Beau and daughters Alexandra and Caitlyn. His brother Chris is a jockey, and another brother Ben is an exercise rider.

Quick facts about Eddie Martin Jr.:

• Through Oct. 2, his mounts had earned $2,521,923.
  
• Through Oct. 2, he had won with 84 of 829 mounts.
  
• Biggest career victory and first since suffering a fractured shoulder on Sept. 5 at Ellis Park, came aboard She Says It Best in the 2007 G2 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland. He rode her back in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies to a ninth-place finish.
  
• Has ridden in one previous Breeders' Cup, finishing ninth with Charlie's Beau in the 1999 Juvenile.
  
• Got interested in racing because his father owned horses and took him to the races. One summer, his dad's trainer hired him to work on his farm and the next summer the trainer allowed him to gallop horses. That's when he decided he wanted to be a jockey.
  
• Martin started race riding races in 1980 at Fair Grounds. About 30 rides later he rode his first winner, Morality, at Delta Downs.
  
• A regular on the Midwest and Southwest circuits, he has ridden at every major track in the nation except Del Mar and Santa Anita Park ... Has won riding titles at Fair Grounds, Jefferson Downs, Beulah Park and Lone Star Park.
  
• Top mounts have included Catboat (G3 Arlington Breeders' Cup Oaks in 2004), Spanish Empire (G3 Fifth Season Stakes in 2004), Runway Model (G2 Golden Rod Stakes in 2004), Halory Leigh (G2 Falls City Handicap in 2004) and Real Cozzy (G2 Fair Grounds Oaks in 2001).
  
• Rode a record-tying six winners at Fair Grounds on Jan. 18, 2004.
  
• Home in Metairie, La. was damaged and summer home in Bay St. Louis, Miss. was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
  
• Dec. 8, 2006 marked his 3,000th winner at Aqueduct on Sweetiewheatie.