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| Dominique Boeuf |
Stats Updated Through: 5/30/2006
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Born: June 6, 1968
Family: the son of former jump jockey and trainer Georges Boeuf. Wife Julie is the niece of former jockey Alain Lequeux.
Quick facts on Dominique Boeuf:
- Apprenticed to Pierre Biancone and later to Patrick Biancone. Rode his first winner at Le Croise Laroche on Sept 15, 1984 on Maydi. Boeuf was champion apprentice in 1985 with 30 winners and rode his 100th winner at Deauville in August 1987.
- Won a retainer to ride for top owner Daniel Wildenstein and went on to become champion jockey in France in 1991 with 143 winners. He was elected president of the French Jockeys Association by fellow members of the weighing room.
- By the end of 1991, his career had begun a rapid downward spiral as he became involved with drugs. He was arrested in 1994, and in March of the following year he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for his role in a drug ring that had handled £625,000 worth of heroin and cocaine during a three-year period. Four other jockeys, including Olivier Doleuze, received suspended sentences, and Boeuf's punishment was later commuted to a suspended term.
- Boeuf was able to continue riding, but he lost the Wildenstein retainer and rides were understandably much more difficult to come by. He suffered another blow when he was jocked off Helissio after the subsequent Arc winner had lost his chance by pulling too hard when hot favorite for the 1996 Prix du Jockey-Club.
- Began to enjoy a resurgence in 1997, riding 127 winners, and in 1998 regained the jockeys' title with 175 winners. He finished second and fourth behind Olivier Peslier before adding a third title in 2001, when he made up a deficit of 20 winners in the last seven weeks of the season (reaching a final total of 149) after Peslier left France for a winter spell in Japan.
- In May 2001 he regained the opportunity to ride in the famous blue Wildenstein silks after France's leading owner decided to remove his horses from Andre Fabre and send them to Elie Lellouche, one of Boeuf's biggest supporters.
- He retained the championship in style in 2002 as, with 151 winners from 1111 rides, he finished 52 clear of the joint runners-up, Ioritz Mendizabal and Christophe Soumillon.
- 2003 has brought Boeuf nine Group race successes, but none have been at Group 1 level. Super Celebre gave him one of four Group 2 victories in the Prix Noailles but then had to settle for second place to Dalakhani in both the Prix Lupin and Prix du Jockey-Club.
- He is virtually certain to relinquish his jockeys' title as, up to September 25, he was in third place in the standings, with 120 wins from 887 rides, 37 wins behind the runaway leader, Soumillon.
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NOTE: Stats include North American and selected international races. Click here to view selected international race list.
Biographies on jockeys, trainers and owners are from the Breeders' Cup World Championships events from 2001 through 2009, and are intended as informational resources. Biographies will be updated if an individual is again a participant in the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Biographies are available for most horses appearing in the top 100 money earnings list, and/or for those who are frequently making headlines in the news starting with the 2006 Triple Crown season.
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