WGustavo Ávila is a retired jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He is best known as the jockey who rode Canonero II to victory in two of the 1971 U.S. Triple Crown series, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Among his other accomplishments, Avila was the winner of the first Clásico del Caribe (1966) with Victoreado and was the leading rider at La Rinconada Hippodrome for five years.
WÉtienne Balsan was born in Paris, France, as Fulcran Étienne Balsan.
WMickaël Barzalona is a French-born Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Since March 2012, he is one of the retained jockeys for Godolphin Racing, and is their principal rider in France, mainly riding horses trained by André Fabre and Henri-Alex Pantall.
WEdmond Blanc (1856–1920) was a great horse breeder as well a French politician. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1893 to 1894, and from 1898 to 1902, representing Hautes-Pyrénées. He also served as the mayor of La Celle Saint-Cloud. He was the owner of several stud farms in La Celle Saint-Cloud, Haras Villebon and Haras Hardy. He built the racecourse of Saint-Cloud inaugurated in 1901 along with a horse training center named La Fouilleuse. He won the Grand Prix de Paris seven times.
WMatthew Chadwick is a horse racing jockey in Hong Kong. He was champion apprentice in 2008/09. He ranked fourth in the jockeys' premiership in 2009/10 although he became a fully fledged jockey in mid season. By the end of 2010/11, Chadwick had had 134 wins.
WAidan Coleman is an Irish horse racing jockey.
WBernard Dillon was born at Caherina in Tralee. In 1901 he joined his older brother Joe, both of them being apprentice jockeys at the famous Druids Lodge training establishment in Wiltshire England. Victory on Lemberg in the 1910 Epsom Derby was his most famous achievement although he also rode winners in the 1,000 Guineas, Lincoln, Cambridgeshire, Eclipse Stakes, Coronation Cup and the Grand Prix de Paris.
WOlivier Doleuze is a French born jockey and is considered to be one of the world's premier jockeys. Doleuze began riding at the age of 14, and currently has over 700 career wins. In 2010/11 he rode 38 winners, bringing his Hong Kong career total to 375.
WMasayoshi Ebina is a Japanese jockey. Nicknamed Ebi-Shō.
WDennis Fitzpatrick (1764–1806) was an Irish, five-times British Classic winning jockey. He was the first Irish professional jockey to ride in England and competed in some of the most notable match races of the 19th century versus fellow jockey Frank Buckle.
WKazuo Fujisawa is a trainer of Thoroughbred race horses. He has been a licensed trainer in Japan since 1987 and since 1993 has won the training title eleven times.
WJames Anthony "Seamie" Heffernan is an Irish flat racing jockey who rides mainly for horse racing trainer Aidan O'Brien. From a family with no racing connections Heffernan was introduced to the sport when he took a summer holiday job with the National Hunt trainer Arthur Moore. He began his racing career as an apprentice jockey for P J Finn and rode his first winner on 10 August 1988 at the age of sixteen. When Finn retired he moved to the yard of Jim Bolger and shared the Irish champion apprentices title in 1994. He was runner-up in the same competition in 1995 and moved to Aidan O'Brien's Ballydoyle stable in 1996 where he was second jockey after Christy Roche.
WRobert Frederick "Fred" Herbert was a Canadian-born jockey, sometimes given the sobriquet "Brusher". From a riding career that lasted fifty years until he retired in 1947, his first big race win came aboard Donau in the 1910 Kentucky Derby.
WYasunari Iwata is a Japanese jockey who rode the winner of the 2006 Melbourne Cup, Delta Blues. It was Iwata's first race outside Japan.
WDaryl Jacob is an Irish National Hunt jockey who rode for trainer Paul Nicholls as second jockey to Ruby Walsh. When Walsh left the Nicholas yard Jacob took over as principal rider. He won at the Cheltenham festival for the first time in 2011 on Zarkandar in the Triumph Hurdle. His second Cheltenham Festival win was in 2014 on Lac Fontana in the Vincent O Brien County Handicap Hurdle on the last day of the festival. However, before the start of the next race he suffered a broken leg, knee and elbow after Port Melon crashed into the rail.
WMakoto Kaneko is the President, CEO and Representative Director of Zuken Inc., a public listed multinational corporation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He also owns the exclusive golf club, The King Kamehameha Golf Club in Hawaii.
WWayne Lordan is a multiple Group race winning Irish jockey.
WJason Maguire, is a former horse racing jockey.
WJohn Francis Meagher is an Australian Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
WGérald Mossé is a jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. He began riding professionally in April 1983 and his success during his apprenticeship under Patrick-Louis Biancone led to an offer to ride for renowned trainer François Boutin and his stable of horses belonging to Jean-Luc Lagardère. Mossé went on to become one of his country's top jockeys, winning the 1990 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In 1991, he rode Arazi to five straight wins in France then spent 1992 and part of 1993 racing in Hong Kong.
WSebastian Murphy is an apprentice Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
WJames Edward Pike nicknamed "The Master", was an Australian jockey who was known for riding Phar Lap to victory in the 1930 Melbourne Cup.
WToivo Pohjala was a Finnish wrestler and harness racing driver.
WMichael Rodd is an Australian jockey who is best known for riding Efficient to victory in the 2007 Melbourne Cup.
WRicardo Santana Jr. is a jockey in American Thoroughbred racing who won six consecutive riding titles from 2013 through 2018 at Oaklawn Park and in 2019 won the Breeders' Cup Sprint as well as the Prince of Wales Stakes (2019), the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown series.
WPeter Schiergen is a former German champion jockey and a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
WFusao Sekiguchi (関口房朗) is a businessman and Thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast. He is the Chairman of the Board and majority shareholder of Venture Safe Net, Inc of Tokyo.
WYoshitomi Shibata is a Japanese Horse racing jockey. He was a three-time champion jockey of Kantō, riding 2000 victories in his career.
WPatrick Joseph Smullen, was an Irish jockey who won the Irish flat racing Champion Jockey title nine times. In a career running from 1992 to 2018 he rode 1,845 winners in Ireland and 47 in Britain. Amongst his biggest successes were riding Harzand to victories in the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby in 2016. He was stable jockey to Dermot Weld from 1999 until 2018.
WAndrasch Starke is a jockey in international Thoroughbred horse racing.
WAndreas Suborics is an Austrian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who is based in Germany and races worldwide.
WKoshiro Take is a Japanese trainer and ex-jockey. He is the younger brother of Yutaka Take. Started as a trainer in 2018.
WTed Walsh is an Irish amateur jockey turned racehorse trainer who was born and raised in Co. Cork but based in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland. Ted is also father to amateur Irish National Hunt jockey, Katie Walsh and professional national hunt jockey Ruby Walsh.