Flores Jose

Peruvian jockey who spent most of his career in the United States, where he was a leading rider at race tracks in Pennsylvania. He won 4,650 races out of 28,684, among the 42 winningest careers in North America, and placed in 7,975. In his most successful year, 1987, he won 380 races out of 1,694. He was the leading rider at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania four times before changing in the late 1990s to Philadelphia Park, now Parx Casino and Racing, where he became the highest-earning jockey in the history of the track. In 1999 he won the Philadelphia Park Breeders Cup Handicap on Loaded Gun. In 2013 he was inducted into the Parx Hall of Fame. On 19 March 2018, Flores was in the lead in a race at Parx when his mount, Love Rules, fell with a suspected shoulder fracture and he was thrown. Two other horses and their riders also fell but were not seriously injured; one horse may have fallen on Flores, who incurred grave head and spinal injuries and died on March 22 after being taken off life support at age 57. He was married and had three sons, Link to Wikipedia biography Read less