Patrick A. Valenzuela

Patrick Valenzuela seven Breeders' Cup victories and was the
first jockey to twice win two races in the same year: the 1991
Juvenile (Arazi) and Mile (Opening Verse), then in 1992 in the
Juvenile Fillies (Eliza) and Turf (Fraise). He also won the 1986
Juvenile Fillies with Brave Raj, the 1987 Sprint with Very Subtle
and the 2003 Distaff with Adoration. He did not ride in a Breeders'
Cup event in 2006-2009, but returned in 2010 with two
unplaced mounts. 

He won the 1989 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Sunday
Silence. They lost their chance for a Triple Crown when Easy Goer
defeated them in the Belmont Stakes. By the time Sunday Silence
again defeated Easy Goer in the Breeders' Cup Classic that year,
Valenzuela was serving one of his many suspensions and had lost the
mount.

He won the 2011 Pacific Classic with Acclamation, after
having won the same race twenty years prior aboard Best Pal. Also
won the G1 Shoemaker Mile with Courageous Cat, and three more
graded stakes from 10 stakes wins going into the Breeders' Cup.

Valenzuela has struggled with substance abuse throughout his
career. And has consequently been suspended from racing repeatedly.
Agent Tom Knust has insisted that he has been sober since May
of 2008. When Valenzuela was granted a license to ride in Kentucky
in September of 2010, it enabled him to ride in the Breeders' Cup
that year at Churchill Downs. Valenzuela returned to the Triple
Crown scene seven months later in the 2011 Kentucky Derby with
Comma to the Top for trainer Peter Miller in 2011, but
finished last.

He returned to Southern California during the summer of 2010
after his suspended provisional license was reinstated. He then
began riding during the second week of the Del Mar meeting and was
a force throughout the season, finishing a strong third in the
jockey standings with 29 victories and purse earnings of $1.5
million. His biggest wins came aboard J P's Gusto in the track's
Best Pal Stakes (G2) and Del Mar Futurity (G1). Other big wins in
'10 included the G2 Las Palmas Handicap with Briecat and Morvich H.
(G3) aboard Quick Enough.