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| Richard Migliore |
Stats Updated Through: 11/19/2009
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| 2009 Stats: | | Starts | | 332 | | 1st-2nd-3rd | | 40-49-38 | | Earnings (Rank) | | $2,790,072 (90) | | Win % (In-The-Money %) | | 12% (38%) |
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Top Associated Horses:
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Regal Ransom,
Flashing,
Runforthedoe,
Mor Chances,
Grand Slam Andre,
Elusive Lady |
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- Height: 5'4"
- Weight: 112
- Born: March 14, 1964, Babylon, N.Y.
- Residence: Garden City, N.Y.
- Family: wife, Carmela, sons Joseph, Philip Salvatore, Luciano, and daughter, Gabrielle Rose.
- Through Oct. 15, 2009 ranked among the top 100 jockeys in North America with $2,739,494 in earnings and 40 wins from 280 mounts. He was scoring at a 13% rate, 41% in the money.
- Won the inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint aboard Desert Code in 2008, also finished 10th on Fairbanks in that year's G1 Breeders' Cup Classic. Previously, his best finish had been a third in the 1985 G1 Breeders' Cup Turf aboard Mourjane.
- Based year-round in New York for 26 years, he rode in California with Ron Anderson managing his business in the fall of 2006, but returned to New York full-time in the summer of 2007. Currently splits his time between New York and California.
- Top mounts this year included Flashing (G1 Test Stakes), Regal Ransom (G2 Super Derby), Unbridled Belle (G3 Obeah Stakes), Mr. Fantasy (G3 Withers Stakes), and Mor Chances, aboard which he won three stakes races in New York in 2009 (Kashatreya Stakes, Hollie Hughes Stakes, Kim's Chance Stakes).
- Paired up with Godolphin, the Maktoum family racing stable led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at the end of the summer season in 2009. That alliance led to mounts aboard Regal Ransom and Flashing, among others.
- Winner of the 2008 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.
- Earned his 4,000th career victory aboard Benjamin Baby at Aqueduct on Feb. 4, 2005.
- Won Eclipse Award as leading apprentice jockey in 1981. Topped the standings in New York as an apprentice in 1981 and as a journeyman in 1985.
- Honors include winner of the Eddie Arcaro Award (outstanding jockey) from the N.Y. Turf Writers in 1981 and 1985 and 2003 Mike Venezia Memorial Award.
- A series of injuries over three consecutive years caused the number and quality of his East Coast mounts to decline. Most notably, broke his leg and injured his Achilles tendon in a paddock accident at Belmont Park nine days prior to the 2005 Breeders' Cup and lost the mount on Artie Shiller, who won the G1 TVG Breeders' Cup Mile. In 2004, rode Artie Shiller to a 12th place finish in Mile but was later diagnosed with a broken wrist, ribs and pelvis from a gate accident two days prior.
- First grade 1 win came in the 1984 Meadowlands Cup aboard Wild Again ... Wild Again (with Pat Day riding) went on to win the inaugural Breeders' Cup Classic. Recent top mounts include Student Council (G1 Pacific Classic), Dixie Chatter (G1 Norfolk), and Kip Deville (G1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile, G2 Maker's Mark and G3 Sir Beaufort).
- In 1988, suffered a near fatal neck injury. "The doctor told me I would never walk again," said Migliore, who left the hospital six weeks later using a walker. Six and a half months after that he rode his first race back at Aqueduct.
- His 2008 score in the G1 Pacific Classic with Student Council was his second in a $1 million race. He also won the 2004 running of the G1 Florida Derby aboard Friends Lake.
- Held in high regard by racing community, Migliore traveled to Australia with Santa Anita President Ron Charles and fellow jockey Aaron Gryder to evaluate Pro-Ride, a racing surface.
- As a teen, Migliore went to work for trainer Steve DiMauro at Belmont Park. Rode first race at The Meadowlands on Sept. 29, 1980 and first win came less than a month later aboard Good Grip on Oct. 24, 1980 at age 16.
- Growing up on Long Island, he'd bike to a nearby farm. Migliore and his friends bought ponies and pretended to race them. After winning a close race aboard a gutsy pony, Migliore went home to watch Bill Shoemaker, aboard Forego, edge Honest Pleasure in the 1976 Marlboro Cup and vowed to be a jockey.
Breeders' Cup Record| Starts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Earnings | | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | $941,700 |
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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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