Kendrick Carmouche

Kendrick Carmouche, born on 18 January 1984 in Vinton, Louisiana, is an American Thoroughbred jockey from a family of riders: his father Sylvester Carmouche Jr., his brother Sylvester III and his grandfather all rode. He rode his first race at sixteen at Delta Downs and won his first race on 27 April 2000 at Evangeline Downs. After moving to the Philadelphia area in 2001 he won seven riding titles at Parx, four of them in a row from 2008 to 2011, and was inducted into the Parx Hall of Fame in 2015. He moved to New York in 2015, won his first Grade 1 in the 2020 Cigar Mile on True Timber, and won the 2021 Wood Memorial on the 72 to 1 shot Bourbonic, earning a ride in that year's Kentucky Derby. In 2025 he won his 4,000th race and the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.