| Jorge Ricardo | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Jockey |
| Born | 1961 September 30 (50years) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Career wins | 11410 (2011-12-31) |
| Major racing wins, honours and awards | |
| Major racing wins | |
| Gran Premio Brazil (1994) Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini (1994) Anchorena (2006) Gran Premio Internacional José Pedro Ramírez (2007) |
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| Racing awards | |
| Brazilian Champion jockey (1982-2006) | |
| Significant horses | |
| Much Better, Storm Military, Good Report | |
Jorge Ricardo (born September 30, 1961 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a jockey in South American Thoroughbred horse racing who became the all-time winningest rider in history on February 5, 2007. He has since been passed by Canadian-born, California-based rider Russell Baze.
Born into a horse racing family, Jorge Ricardo's father and two of his uncles were jockeys. Since making his professional racing debut in 1976 he has won 400 races in one year on five occasions and has been Brazil's leading jockey twenty-five consecutive years from 1982 through 2006.
Since 1982 to this day he has won 28 yearly statistics, 26 in Brazil and 2 in Argentina.
He succeeded more than 150 races Grade 1, included the “Gran Premio Internacional Latinoamericano” on five occasions, which is the most important event of southamerican turf, when his immediate persecutors have done it only on 2 occasions.
The best horse that has run was Much Better, it was a real champion.
In 1993 beat the brasilian record wining 477 victories in one year.
In 2008, Jorge Ricardo beat the argentinian record wining 467 races in one year.
Competing at the Hipodromo Argentino in Palermo, Buenos Aires, Ricardo earned the 9,981st (Up to Dec. 29, 2007) victory of his career to surpass the still active Canadian jockey Russell Baze as the all-time leader in racing wins. On Jan. 9, 2008, Ricardo earned his 10,000th win with a victory abord Membresia in the 11th race at San Isidro in Buenos Aires.