Fernando Toro

Fernando Toro, born on 31 January 1941 in Santiago, Chile, is a retired Hall of Fame Thoroughbred jockey who became one of the most successful riders in Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s. He won his first race at the Club Hipico de Santiago on 19 November 1956, was the leading rider in Chile, and emigrated to the United States in 1966. He retired in 1990 after winning 3,555 North American races. He took the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1975, was widely respected for his turf riding, and won the inaugural Breeders Cup Mile in 1984 on the filly Royal Heroine. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2023.