Flavien Prat, the 2024 recipient, won the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf aboard Moira. (Ernie Belmonte/Past The Wire)
Top Jockey At Breeders’ Cup
Breeders’ Cup Release
DEL MAR, Calif.– The 23rd Bill Shoemaker Award will be given this weekend to the outstanding jockey of the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar that begins Friday afternoon.
Won last year by Flavien Prat, the Shoemaker Award will go to the jockey who rides the most winners in the 14 Championship races. Should there be a tie among two or more riders with the most victories, the deadlock will be broken on a 10-3-1 point system for second- through fourth-place finishes.
The Shoemaker Award is named in honor of one of the greatest jockeys in the history of Thoroughbred racing. Shoemaker, who won the Kentucky Derby four times, won 8,833 races in a career that spanned more than 40 years. In 1987, at age 56, Shoemaker won the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) aboard Ferdinand at Hollywood Park.
