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| Robby Albarado |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 1075 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 193-168-144 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $10,661,155 (10) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 17% (46%) |
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Top Associated Horses:
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Swift Temper,
Macho Again,
Tapitsfly,
Court Vision,
Beautician,
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- Height: 5’6”
- Weight: 110
- Born: Sept. 11, 1973, Lafayette, La.
- Residence: Louisville, Ky. and New Orleans, La.
- Family: wife Kimber; sons Kaden and Kash; daughter Larkin.
- Web site: http://www.robbyalbaradofoundation.org/
- Through Oct. 4, 2009, Albarado ranked 10th in the nation by earnings with $7,993,247. He had 156 winners from 873 starters, with a 18% win rate and a 47% in the money percentage.
- Rode West Point Thoroughbreds' Macho Again to a runner-up finish by a head behind leading 3-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra in her history-making win against older males in the G1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in 2009. Also won that year's runnings of the G1 Stephen Foster Handicap and the G2 New Orleans Handicap aboard the Dallas Stewart trainee, a son of Macho Uno.
- Other top mounts in 2009 included Hot Dixie Chick (G1 Spinaway Stakes, G3 Schuylerville Stakes), Secret Gypsy (G2 Distaff Handicap), Keertana (G3 Regret Stakes), Closeout (G3 Locust Grove Handicap), Bold Start (G3 Aristides Stakes), and Tapitsfly (P.G. Johnson Stakes).
- Scored 4,000th win on May 30, 2009, in the ninth race at Churchill Downs on Keertana, then followed up that score with a victory one race later in the $100,000-added Aristides aboard Bold Start.
- Was the regular rider for two-time Horse of the Year Curlin through the 2007 and 2008 season that included the jockey's first Breeders' Cup win in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic and a score in the ’07 Preakness Stakes. The duo also ran fourth in the Classic in 2008 and took that season's editions of the $6 million Dubai World Cup, the G1 Stephen Foster Handicap, the G1 Woodward Stakes, and the G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup as the Smart Strike colt ran through his 4-year-old year to become the first runner in American racing history to surpass $10 million in earnings. In 2007 they ran third in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands and second in the Belmont Stakes for trainer Steve Asmussen and majority owner Jess Jackson.
- Led all riders at Churchill Downs’ spring meet in 2008, taking home the riding title with a clear 73-win lead over runner-up Miguel Mena’s 65 wins. Also became only the seventh rider in the Louisville oval’s history to ride 700 winners when he visited the winner’s circle aboard Shive’s Success on May 22, 2008. Agent Lenny Pike holds his book.
- Created the Robby Albarado Foundation in 2007, a non-profit organization established to assist homeless, socially-economically disadvantaged, and less fortunate individuals in the Louisville, Kentucky area.
- Presented with the 2004 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, the highest honor awarded by his peers.
- Regular rider of 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft on whom he won his first $1-million race in the Jockey Club Gold Cup that year.
- In addition to the Churchill riding title, has been leading rider at Arlington Park, Fair Grounds (six times), Keeneland (twice), and Oaklawn Park (twice).
- Overcame two skull fractures in a 17-month period during 1998 and ’99, one of which required the replacement of a damaged portion of his skull with titanium mesh and polymer.
- Rode mostly in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Chicago before moving to the Kentucky circuit in the spring of 1996. Now rides between Kentucky and New York in the spring/summer, and in Louisiana in the winter.
- Recorded his first stakes victory on Tuck’s Honey Bear in the 1993 Grady Madden Memorial … First graded stakes victory came aboard Snake Eyes in the 1995 Stars and Stripes at Arlington Park ... Won first Grade 1 race on Joyeux Danseur in the 1998 Early Times Turf Classic at Churchill Downs.
- Started riding the bush tracks when he was 12 ... Scored his first career victory in 1990 at Evangeline Downs on One Little Point.
- Avid golfer, who regularly hits in the 80s.
Breeders' Cup Record| Starts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Earnings | | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | $4,831,800 |
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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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