Alright, so the other day I got this itch to check out who the leading jockeys were at Belmont Park. It wasn’t anything fancy, just pure curiosity. So, I grabbed my phone and started tapping away.
First things first, I fired up Google. I just typed in “leading jockeys Belmont” – super simple, right? The results popped up, and I noticed a couple of mentions about the dates, something like May 4th to July 9th, 2023. That seemed to be the timeframe for the stats I was after.
I dove deeper, looking for an official source. You know, somewhere that had the real, legit numbers. I figured there had to be some official site for the Belmont meet statistics. No luck.
Then, I switched gears a bit. Maybe there was something on the leading jockeys for 2024, I thought. I refined my search to “leading jockeys 2024” and hit enter. I saw “Top 100 Leaders by North American Race Earnings.” Bingo! I also saw something about an update on January 2nd, 2025 which was funny. Must have been a typo, or maybe my phone’s calendar is just way off.
I stumbled upon this “TRC Global Rankings” thing. It sounded kind of fancy, talking about a “principled hierarchy” of horses, sires, and jockeys. Sounded like a rabbit hole, but I decided to save that for another time. Then I came across info about the Leading Jockeys at Parx Racing, Starting Date 01/01/2025 Ending Date 01/21/2025, I kept that info for future use.
To sum it all up, I found what I was looking for. I got a good overview of who’s who in the jockey world at Belmont Park, at least for that specific period in 2023, and also some fresh info on the current top jockeys. It wasn’t a deep dive, but it satisfied my curiosity. Plus, I learned a little bit more about where to find these kinds of stats, even if it took a bit of clicking around. Mission accomplished!
