Braulio Baeza
| Braulio Baeza | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Jockey |
| Born | March 26, 1940 Panama City, Panama |
| Career wins | 4,013 |
| Major racing wins | |
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Kentucky Oaks (1961, 1976) Benson & Hedges Gold Cup (1972) |
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| Racing awards | |
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George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1968) U.S. Leading Jockey in earnings (1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969) Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey (1972, 1975) |
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| Honours | |
| United States Racing Hall of Fame (1976) | |
| Significant horses | |
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Buckpasser, Graustark, Dr. Fager, Ack Ack Chateaugay, Arts and Letters, Droll Role Roberto, Foolish Pleasure |
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Kentucky Oaks (1961, 1976)
Blue Grass Stakes (1961, 1963, 1976)
Wood Memorial Stakes (1962)
Kentucky Derby (1963)
Belmont Stakes (1961, 1963, 1969)
Jockey Club Gold Cup (1965, 1966, 1969)
Travers Stakes (1966, 1969, 1972, 1975)
Whitney Handicap (1968, 1972)
Washington, D.C. International (1972)
Canadian International Stakes (1972)
Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1967, 1973)
Braulio Baeza (born March 26, 1940) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began racing in 1955 and in 1960, at the urging of agent Camilo Marin, moved to compete in the United States, where at the Keeneland Race Course he won the very first race he competed in.
Braulio Baeza's success in America was instantaneous. He was the leading money winner in American racing from 1965 to 1969, the 1968 winner of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, and the 1972 and 1975 winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey. During his career, he rode a number of Thoroughbred greats, including Buckpasser, Graustark, Dr. Fager, and Ack Ack. In 1961 he won his first Belmont Stakes. Two years later he rode to his first Kentucky Derby victory on Chateaugay as well as for his second Belmont Stakes win. In 1969 he won the Belmont for the third time on board future Hall of Famer, Arts and Letters.
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