Mike Smith
Oct 31, 2020 19:04:05 GMT -5
Post by 1hooper on Oct 31, 2020 19:04:05 GMT -5
I was surprised when I read this at BloodHorse.
Mike Smith is the leading jockey in Breeders' Cup history by wins (26) and purse earnings ($36,634,605). His four victories in the championship event's climactic race, the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), are only one behind Chris McCarron and Jerry Bailey for tops in that category.
But when the 37th running of the Breeders' Cup World Championships is staged Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland in Lexington, the Hall of Fame rider will be more than 2,000 miles away. The 55-year-old will be at Del Mar for the second weekend of the fall meeting that began Oct. 31.
"I'm staying. I don't have any mounts so I'm sitting this one (Breeders' Cup) out," Smith told Del Mar publicity by telephone when asked to 'say it ain't so' about his pending Breeders' Cup absence.
Mike Smith is the leading jockey in Breeders' Cup history by wins (26) and purse earnings ($36,634,605). His four victories in the championship event's climactic race, the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), are only one behind Chris McCarron and Jerry Bailey for tops in that category.
But when the 37th running of the Breeders' Cup World Championships is staged Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland in Lexington, the Hall of Fame rider will be more than 2,000 miles away. The 55-year-old will be at Del Mar for the second weekend of the fall meeting that began Oct. 31.
"I'm staying. I don't have any mounts so I'm sitting this one (Breeders' Cup) out," Smith told Del Mar publicity by telephone when asked to 'say it ain't so' about his pending Breeders' Cup absence.