Ryan Moore aboard Victoria Road after their victory Friday in the Juvenile Turf. Photo by Courtney Snow for Past The Wire
Moore wins the 20th Bill Shoemaker Award
Breeders’ Cup Press Release
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ryan Moore, who guided three horses to Breeders’ Cup victories Nov. 4-5 at Keeneland during the 39th World Championships won the 20thBill Shoemaker Award for the outstanding jockey of the two-day event.
The Shoemaker Award goes to the jockey who rides the most winners in the 14 Championship races with the tiebreaker being 10-3-1 point system for second- through fourth-place finishes.
Moore, who won the Shoemaker Award in 2015, won Saturday’s Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) on Tuesday (IRE), and Friday’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) on Victoria Road (IRE) and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Meditate (IRE).
Moore picked up three seconds with Stone Age (IRE) in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), Emaraaty Ana (GB) in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) and Dramatised (IRE) in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1).
Irad Ortiz Jr., winner of the past four Shoemaker Awards, also rode three winners but only had one runner-up finish to Moore’s three.
Ortiz won the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance on Forte, the Breeders’s Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) on Goodnight Olive and the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) on Elite Power.
The Shoemaker Award is named in honor of one of the greatest jockeys in the history of Thoroughbred racing. Shoemaker, who captured 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.
Bill Shoemaker Award Winners
2003: Alex Solis
2004: John Velazquez
2005: Garrett Gomez
2006: Frankie Dettori
2007: Garrett Gomez
2008: Garrett Gomez
2009: Julien Leparoux
2010: Garrett Gomez
2011: John Velazquez
2012: Mike Smith
2013: Mike Smith
2014: John Velazquez
2015: RyanMoore
2016: MikeSmith
2017: Javier Castellano
2018: Irad Ortiz Jr.
2019: Irad Ortiz Jr.
2020: Irad Ortiz Jr.
2021: Irad Ortiz Jr.
2022: Ryan Moore
