Umberto Rispoli
$2,836,601
2025 earnings
21%
2025 wins
$46,218,635
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2025 Stats
Career Stats
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40
Firsts
607
35
Seconds
540
26
Thirds
541
87
Unplaced
1,637
188
Starts
3,325
$2,836,601
Earnings
$46,218,635
$15,088
Earnings / Start
$13,900
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Bio
Rispoli is a a native of Italy who moved his tack full-time to the U.S. in 2020 and made Southern California his home base. He won back-to-back leading rider championships in his native Italy in 2009 and 2010 and had been riding in Hong Kong before moving to North America.
He won 10 graded stakes in 2020 while amassing 126 wins (19%) and more than $7 million in purse earnings.
Rispoli is a a native of Italy who moved his tack full-time to the U.S. in 2020 and made Southern California his home base. He won back-to-back leading rider championships in his native Italy in 2009 and 2010 and had been riding in Hong Kong before moving to North America.
He won 10 graded stakes in 2020 while amassing 126 wins (19%) and more than $7 million in purse earnings.
Rispoli set a new career high in purse earnings in 2021 with $10,197,247 during a season in which he scored Grade 1 wins aboard Santa Anita Derby winner Rock Your World, Smooth Like Strait, and Going to Vegas. He rode Anisette to multiple grade 1 wins in 2023 and 2024, establish a new career-best for purse earnings with $10,408,000 in ’24.
Rispoli continued to excel in Southern California in 2025, winning the DK Horse San Felipe Stakes and Santa Anita Derby aboard Journalism, who enters the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve as the favorite.
