Story originally published on July 9, 2013, on DanonymousRacing.com Moments after winning the Queen’s Plate aboard Midnight Aria, Jesse Campbell said that the horse proved “he’s a stayer and he’s a fighter.” The same could be said of the journeyman jockey, who captured the prestigious plate for the first time on Sunday. “I’ve been working…

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Story originally published on June 2, 2013, on DanonymousRacing.com Arlington Heights, IL – Channing Hill is a changed man. A good woman can have that effect and Hill has found himself one very good woman. “She has pretty much turned me around,” Hill told DanonymousRacing.com. “She keeps me in check and she keeps me focused on…

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Story originally published on April 20, 2013, on DanonymousRacing.com Gary Stevens had nothing left to prove. At least, not to anyone who’d watched him ride horses for nearly three decades. Hall of Fame? Check. Breeder’s Cup wins? Check. Kentucky Derby victories? Triple check. But when he walked, or rather hobbled, away from horse racing more…

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Story originally published on April 25, 2013, on DanonymousRacing.com For twenty-minutes, we talked. Kevin Krigger sounded supremely confident and then, just in case I hadn’t detected it in his tone, he made his thoughts plain. “It is what it is,” Krigger told DanonymousRacing.com. “I am going to be the first African-American jockey since 1902 to…

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Story originally published on April 15, 2013, on DanonymousRacing.com Julien Leparoux could’ve sulked and no one would’ve blamed him. In a year filled with ups and downs for the 29-year-old jockey, the low point might’ve been last month after the San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita. Leparoux, riding Kentucky Derby hopeful, Flashback, found himself in…

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