Brian Joseph Hernandez Jr., born on 3 November 1985 in Lafayette, Louisiana, is an American Thoroughbred jockey and Eclipse Award winner. He began riding professionally in 2003, won his first race on 29 November 2003 at Delta Downs, and took the 2004 Eclipse Award for outstanding apprentice jockey after 243 wins. In 2009 he rode Rachel Alexandra to two wins in her first five starts, and on 3 November 2012 he won the Breeders' Cup Classic aboard Fort Larned at Santa Anita Park. In 2024 he became the ninth jockey, and the first since Calvin Borel in 2009, to win both the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby in the same year, on Thorpedo Anna and then Mystik Dan, both trained by Ken McPeek. By May 2024 he had more than 2,500 wins.
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is an American Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing
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is an American Eclipse Award-winning jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing
Competed In: Kentucky Derby, Career, 2024
then won the Derby the following day on Mystik Dan
Competed In: Breeders' Cup, Career, 2012
he won the Breeders' Cup Classic aboard Fort Larned at Santa Anita Park
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