Jose Lezcano

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS 

• On the inaugural Stars & Stripes Day at Belmont in 2014, won the $1 million Belmont Derby Invitational aboard Mr Speaker and the Belmont Sprint Championship with Clearly Now
• In 2013, rode Horse of the Year Wise Dan to three victories, including his second straight Breeders’ Cup Mile 
• Won his first Breeders’ Cup race aboard his first mount, Maram, in the inaugural running of the Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2008 

INTRODUCTION TO RACING 

• Lezcano began riding on his father’s farm before attending the Laffit Pincay Jockey School 

FIRST WINNER 

• Cloudy Gray, March 14, 2004, Gulfstream Park