Miguel Rivera

Miguel Angel Rivera Vargas, born on 8 July 1943, is a former Puerto Rican jockey who rode from the 1960s to the 1990s. He moved between Puerto Rico and the mainland United States through the 1960s and settled on the mainland in the early 1970s. He won two legs of the Triple Crown in 1974, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes, and his best Kentucky Derby finish was sixth in 1977. He also won an Acorn Stakes in 1974, and won nine graded stakes between 1976 and 1982. After working as a trainer he made several returns to racing before his final race in 1993. He won more than 1,800 races across Puerto Rico and the United States and entered the Puerto Rican Equestrian Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Puerto Rico Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.