Fernando De La Cruz
$4,403,714
2025 earnings
18%
2025 wins
$65,625,136
lifetime earnings
racing Record
2025 Stats
Career Stats
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145
Firsts
2,700
87
Seconds
2,528
105
Thirds
2,369
483
Unplaced
10,707
820
Starts
18,304
$4,403,714
Earnings
$65,625,136
$5,370
Earnings / Start
$3,585
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Bio
Jockey Fernando De La Cruz had his breakout season in 2007 and has been a fixture mainly on the Kentucky circuit ever since with more than 2,400 wins up through December of 2023. De La Cruz won a career-high 207 races in 2016, and 2023 was the best yet in De La Cruz's career in terms of purse earnings when he set a personal all-time best in excess of $6.5 million.
De La Cruz is a multiple Grade 2 stakes-winning jockey aboard such winners as Bucchero (Woodford Stakes), Get Smokin (Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes), and Trademark, winner of the 2023 Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Jockey Fernando De La Cruz had his breakout season in 2007 and has been a fixture mainly on the Kentucky circuit ever since with more than 2,400 wins up through December of 2023. De La Cruz won a career-high 207 races in 2016, and 2023 was the best yet in De La Cruz's career in terms of purse earnings when he set a personal all-time best in excess of $6.5 million.
De La Cruz is a multiple Grade 2 stakes-winning jockey aboard such winners as Bucchero (Woodford Stakes), Get Smokin (Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes), and Trademark, winner of the 2023 Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs.
