An apprentice jockey is an enormous challenge – try to learn a physical and mentally exhausting sports drive through journey while keeping a strict diet and training program. At the same time, make sure that you gain a foothold in an industry that build more than anything on building long -lasting personal relationships. Not effortless!
Nevertheless, a selected group of ambitious juvenile athletes appear on the apprentices every year. In all races, the trainees receive a weight concession for a certain period of time in all races to assist them get riding orders, and the best are nominated every year to get the Eclipse Award as an outstanding trainee.
Erik Asmussen, son of the Hall of Fame coach Steve Asmussen, won the solar eclipse as an outstanding apprentice driver for 2024. Let's take a look at how the previous five winners have professional jockeys after the loss of the “error”.
2023: Axel Concepcion
Concepcion comes from Puerto Rico and, as a 18-year-old, made a sensation during his Eclipse season for a sensation and made the first win with Laurel Park's Spring 2023 Meet and second profits and income at Turfway Park's December. In 2024 he achieved his first win for the graded commitment in Keeland after becoming a journeyman and was now founded on fair terrain, on which he currently occupied the 10th place in Siegen and Eighth of Ränsen (until March 5).
2022: Jose Antonio Gomez
Gomez, a native Michigan, was supervised by Hall of Fame Rider Angel Cordero Jr. in his Breakout year and won the Eclipse Award, while mainly on the toughest racetrack in North America -Nyra follows the aqueduct, Belmont Park and the Saratoga racing course. Gomez stayed in Recent York after becoming professional. He currently takes the 12th place in the victories and 13th place through the wallet during the winter meeting of the aqueduct.
2021: Jessica Pyfer
Pyfer, the stepdaughter of the trainer Phil d'Amato based in California, established itself as an emerging driver on top line routes like Santa Anita Park and del Mar. In 2021 she became Jockeys Jockeys among all North American apprentices and was second in the victories that from one day with four winnings in Santa in May and May in May and May this year this year this year were occupied this year. These references helped Pyfer to win the solar eclipse as an apprentice as the third jockey jockey. In 2023, Pyfer withdrew from driving to a television analyst for 1/st in Santa Anita Park.
2020: Alexander Crispin
In 2019, Crispin completed his home country of Escuela Vocacional Hipica Jockey School in Puerto Rico. Since then he has stayed there and took ninth place at Jockeys in Delaware Park 2024 in Delaware Park.
2019: Kazushi Kimura
Since Kimura moved from Japan to North America in 2018, he has produced a call as a robust, skillful driver on several circuits. He appeared in Woodbine in Toronto in 2019, where he as an apprentice third place in the victories, which competed under a high -quality jockey colony. After winning the Eclipse Award and the journeyman, which was then completed, Kimura won three consecutive jockey titles in his home route from 2021-23, while he was traveling to South California while Woodbine did not run. In 2024 he permanently moved to the Socal Circuit and is expected to return this month from an injury suffered in January.
