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Posted on Monday, August 4th, 2008
Jockey Edgar Prado, who rode 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, was inducted Monday morning into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame.
Edgar Prado, 41, led the nation in victories in consecutive years from 1996-97. In 2006, he guided the late Barbaro to a win in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on his way to winning the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top jockey.
A two-time winner of the Belmont Stakes, jockey Edgar Prado has 6,106 career wins, ranking him 14th all-time. The Peru native joined an elite fraternity at Gulfstream Park this past February 10, when he became just the 16th jockey in history to record his 6,000th win.
“I have proven that dreams can be accomplished,” jockey Edgar Prado said. “I grew up in a poor part of Lima, Peru. One of my first memories of horse racing was when I was eight years old. My father was a groom, my brother was a jockey, and I was a hotwalker. Horse racing has been my life ever since then.”
Also enshrined to the Horse Racing Hall of Fame Monday were jockey Ismael “Milo” Valenzuela, Street Sense trainer Carl Nafzger and race horses Inside Information, Manila and Ancient Title.
Jockey Ismael Valenzuela rode from 1951 through 1980, winning 2,545 career races for earnings of more than $20 million. He won the Kentucky Derby in 1958 with Tim Tam, then pulled of the Kentucky Derby-Preakness double 10 years later with Forward Pass.
Race horse trainer Carl Nafzger, 67, has trained champions such as 1990 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Unbridled, 1998 3-year-old filly champion Banshee Breeze and Street Sense, 2006 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and 2007 Kentucky Derby and Travers Stakes winner, during his career.
“The horse has taken me from Texas to the Hall of Fame,” Carl Nafzger said. “The horse is the reason we’re all here today. Horses, they never lie. We might lie, but horses won’t.”
Inside Information won 14 of 17 races in his career, including a record 13 1/2-length triumph in the 1995 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (renamed to Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic in 2008).
Manila, one of the most successful grass horses in American racing history, won 15 of 18 career races, earning more than $2.6 million.
Ancient Title competed from 1972-78 and won 24 of 57 starts, 20 of them stakes, earning $1,252,791 in purse money. At the time of his retirement, he ranked 10th in career earnings.
Horse racing tags: Ancient Title, Carl Nafzger, Edgar Prado, Inside Information, Ismael "Milo" Valenzuela, Manila
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