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The legendary trainer was a four-time Kentucky Derby winner who also conditioned 15 winners in Triple Crown races.
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.
Nico de Boinville will miss the rides on Jonbon at Sandown and Constitution Hill at Punchestown following his fall from As The Fella Says in a hurdle race at Plumpton on Easter Monday.
He got them, in spades. With "Big Money" Mike Smith aboard, the Authentic colt showed the way around the Aqueduct oval and never seemed in any danger of defeat. He won by 3 1/2 lengths, going away.
Pimlico Race Course to close Sept. 1 as state prepares for renovations The 2025 Preakness Stakes will still be held at Pimlico, though demolition is expected to have begun by then ...
Second in the 1 1/8 miles Remsen (G3), Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg, Brooke Smith and Peter Brant’s Sierra Leone was installed as the 4-1 morning line second choice.
Jockey Mike Smith reacts aboard Justify after winning the running of the 143rd Preakness Stakes. Smith was one of the top jockeys when racing came to Minnesota in the 1980s.
HE is nicknamed 'Big Money' for his genius in the saddle but stands just 5ft 4ins. Meet Mike Smith, the legendary 56-year-old rider who was engaged to one of the world's most beautiful people and ...
Meet Mike Smith, the legendary 56-year-old rider who was engaged to one of the world's most beautiful people and has career earnings of more than £270million.
Smith will be aboard Taiba (post position No. 12 with morning line odds of 12-1) for the 2022 Kentucky Derby, with the chance to make history as the oldest jockey to win the prestigious race.
There isn’t much that Mike Smith hasn’t accomplished. The Hall of Fame jockey has been riding horses for more than 40 years and in that time has earned 5,649 first-place finishes in 34,051 starts.