Angel Cordero Jr.

Angel Cordero Jr. is a retired Puerto Rican Thoroughbred jockey, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, into a family of riders and trainers, and the first Puerto Rican inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame. He was the first Puerto Rican jockey to win all three American Classic races. He won the Kentucky Derby three times, on Cannonade in 1974, Bold Forbes in 1976 and Spend A Buck in 1985, took the 1976 Belmont Stakes on Bold Forbes and won the Preakness Stakes in 1980 on Codex and in 1984 on Gate Dancer. He won four Breeders' Cup races, led all riders at Saratoga Race Course for thirteen years and won 7,057 races in his career. A fall at Aqueduct in 1992 ended his career, and he later worked as an agent for the jockey John Velazquez.