Jockey Ramon Dominguez won today's second race at Aqueduct to give him 341 victories in New York in 2009, the second-most by a rider in any single year.
Dominguez, 32, passed retired Hall of Famer Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Freight Forward, giving him 341 wins in 1,417 mounts in New York, with more than $14 million in purse earnings. Cordero won 340 races in 1982.
Another Hall of Famer, Steve Cauthen, holds the all-time single-year record for wins in New York with 433 in 1977. Dominguez would have to average nearly four wins a day in the Aqueducts final 26 scheduled racing days of 2009 to surpass Cauthen.
“I’m very happy that I have been able to do so well in New York,” Dominguez said. “Like I always say, it’s nothing but a reflection of the type of horses that I ride and the support that I get from horsemen and owners. It’s overwhelming, especially with such a colony of great riders here.”
This year in New York, Dominguez has recorded four victories in a day seven times and five victories twice, and has reached three victories 40 times.
Four riders have scored more than 300 wins in a single year at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course, two of them twice: Cordero in 1982 (340) and 1983 (309) and Hall of Famer Mike Smith in 1991 (330) and 1993 (313). Eibar Coa won 303 races in 2006.
Earlier this year, Dominguez set a modern-day record for victories at Belmont’s spring/summer meet with 98, six more than Cordero's previous mark dating back to 1982. This year, Dominguez won riding titles at Saratoga Race Course for the first time, Aqueduct Racetrack’s inner track and spring meets, and Belmont's fall meet.
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