“Horses are in my blood,” said George Woolf, one of the greatest jockeys ever. “I’ll be with them until I die.” The jockey was right on both counts. His father, a stagecoach driver and rancher, “never ...

A four-time Eclipse Award winner and a member of racing's Hall of Fame since 2017, Venezuelan native Javier Castellano has won the 2023 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award via a nationwide vote of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Highly regarded Kendrick Carmouche has won the 2025 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award via nationwide vote of his fellow riders.

Julien Leparoux has been awarded the 2026 George Woolf Award by a vote of jockeys nationwide in recognition of his talents as a rider and the quality of his character. Awarded annually, the George ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five of the nation’s top riders have been nominated for the 76 th George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award at Santa Anita Park. Since ...

Five of the nation’s top riders have been nominated for the 77th George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award at Santa Anita Park. Since 1950, The Woolf Award honors riders whose careers and personal character ...

• Edwin Maldonado, Junior Alvarado, Alex Birzer, Julien Leparoux and Rodney Prescott have been selected as finalists for the 2024 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, which has been presented annually ...

Julien Leparoux is the winner of the 2026 George Woolf Award via a nationwide vote of his fellow riders. The George Woolf Award honors riders whose careers and personal character earn esteem for the ...