In a streak that stretched over two days, Ramon Dominguez, the reigning
Eclipse Award winner as the nation’s top jockey, went 4-for-4 on
Wednesday in races 5-8, and went 3-for-3 on Thursday in races 1, 2 and 4.
Dominguez, the leading jockey on the NYRA circuit, also won race 6 on Thursday for
his second straight four-win day before finishing off the board in races 7 and
8.
The 35-year-old Venezuelan-born reinsman had ridden six consecutive
winners on February 7 and 8, 2009, sharing the previous NYRA record with Corey
Nakatani (October 8, 2011), Stewart Elliott (January 11-13, 2008), Jerry Bailey
(September 17-22, 2005), Jeff Fell (June 18-19, 1980), Steve Cauthen (December
10-11, 1976), and Jorge Velasquez (July 9, 1981), who is the only jockey to
have gone 6-for-6 on a single day at a NYRA racetrack.
It was the seventh time in 2011 Dominguez had ridden four winners on a
single card; he had two five-win days, on January 8 and November 24, his
birthday, and on June 5 at Belmont Park became the first jockey to win six
races on a single NYRA card since Shaun Bridgmohan did so at the Big A on
February 15, 1998.
At the close of racing on Thursday, Dominguez led all jockeys on the
NYRA circuit with 313 victories and has clinched his third straight NYRA riding
title.