Jockey Edgar Prado Inducted In Horse Racing’s Hall of Fame
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.
“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.
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