The Jockey's Jockey: At 49, Mike Smith is racing's best big-money rider / The two jockeys sat together on the night of Oct. 14, watching playoff baseball on television and waiting for another day ...

Jockey Mike Smith and trainer Bob Baffert have won lots of big races together the last few years, and now send out Justify in the Kentucky Derby Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX ...

Mike Smith atop Triple Crown winner Justify is the oldest jockey to win horse racing's biggest prize. His journey started in Dexter, New Mexico.

Mike was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003. As the son of a jockey, he had horse-racing in his blood. By 11 he was riding and by 16 he began his career as a jockey.

Smith has also been aboard Arrogate’s stablemate West Coast for his two Grade 1 wins, but according to Baffert, the jockey had no choice when it came to the Classic. "I said, 'Mike, you stay on ...

It was last Friday morning, before 9 a.m. Pacific time and eight days from the race that could seal the first line in his obituary. Mike Smith could not begin to calculate how many interviews he&#8… ...

Mike Smith will turn 59 in August, but is showing no signs of wanting to retire. The Hall of Fame jockey rode Justify to the Triple Crown in 2018 and will try to win Derby 151 aboard Rodriguez.

T he term “quality over quantity” can be applied to the career of Hall of Famer Mike Smith as he has lately opted to ride fewer mounts but mounts with a higher profile. Such was the case at ...

Jockey Mike Smith rides his horse, Justify, to the winner’s circle after winning the 150th running of the Blemont Stakes horse race. AP. A particularly rough summer, including flying up and down ...

DEL MAR — Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith just missed in Saturday’s Pacific Classic. But the veteran picked up a pair of consolation prizes Monday afternoon as he rode the winners in two lesser ...

Top American jockey Mike Smith has paid a fond tribute to a fellow rider who has died at the age of 22. Smith called Avery Whisman his 'little brother' in the post on social media, after news of ...

Rodriguez jockey Mike Smith, 58, with fellow Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, can add to Kentucky Derby history on Saturday night at Churchill Downs.