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Education For All Ages Into The World of Horse Racing
Jockey World is a educational industry training organization dedicated to provide reliable information, tools, training, guidance and resources that includes knowledge in health & safety to anyone who wishes to pursue a career or develop a better understanding in the horse racing industry. Jockey World is not a gambling related organization. To read more about Jockey World's Mission, click here to read our Jockey World Mission Statement.
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"Stuart S. Janney III"
May 16, 2012 by JW member Kathryn Lindquist
 Introductions to Thoroughbred horse racing often are meetings of chance or a fate lined only in the stars. For champion owner Stuart S. Janney III, that meeting with fate was a filly called Ruffian.
Janney was introduced to the sport through his parents, Stuart and Barbara, whose iconic red and white silks were carried by the tragic champion Ruffian. One of the most beloved fillies of her generation, Ruffian won her first 10 starts before she catastrophically broke down during a 1975 match race with Kentucky Derby winner Foolish Pleasure, and was euthanized. During Ruffian’s racing years, Janney was inevitably exposed to both the grandeur and grit of racing from a young age.
He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Racing Association and Keeneland, as well as being the vice-chairman of The Jockey Club and chairman of that organization’s Thoroughbred Safety Committee.
To date, Janney’s most successful runner was Haskell and Travers Stakes winner Coronado’s Quest. The 3-year-old colt also accounted for Janney’s first Breeders’ Cup start when he finished fifth in the 1998 Classic.
Janney currently owns approximately 80 horses, along with 20 broodmares kept at the historic Claiborne Farms. In a time when the smaller scale of his operation may be overshadowed by the massive scale of the likes of Darley Stud and Winstar Farm, Janney continues to prove that it is quality, not quantity that counts.
While it was the ill-fated filly Ruffian who helped propel the red and white silks and the Janney family name into history – the name still lives on and those silks are still carried victoriously by some of America’s finest Thoroughbreds, all thanks to Stuart S. Janney III and his dedication to the Sport of Kings.
Jockey World member Kathryn Lindquist studies political science and journalism at Campbell University. As a athlete, playing fast pitch softball and running, Kathryn finds inspiration in jockey John "Red" Pollard's grit and fearless determination. She also admires trainer Michael
Matz for his understanding of horses. In addition to being a fan of steeplechase racing's McDynamo, Kathryn's favorite flat racing horses include Smarty Jones, Seabiscuit, and Secretariat.
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"Woodford 'Woody' Stephens"
April 25, 2012 - by JW member Zoe Bragg
 There's a reason why he's got a stakes named after him. Woodford Stephens, the youngster from Stanton, Kentucky, began his immersion into horse racing with a brief career as a jockey at the young age of sixteen. Quickly, he realized that riding the horses wasn't his strong suit and took to training on his own in the late 1930s.
In the late 1950s, Stephens was hired by the late Harry Guggenheim as the head trainer for his racing venture. Needless to say, Stephens was hugely successful in getting his horses to run to the best of their ability, racking up a plethora of stakes wins, as well as winning the Kentucky Oaks three times during this period. However, Stephens decided to resume to training publicly, which brought the same kind of success.
In his seventy years of training racehorses, Stephens won over one hundred Grade 1 stakes and was the proud trainer of eleven Eclipse Award recipients. With barns upon barns of scintillating winners, perhaps some of the best-known of his trainees were 1982 Horse of the Year Conquistador Cielo, 1974 Kentucky Derby-winner Cannonade, and the great Swale (who won the Derby and the Belmont in 1984). Just a few of his accomplishments are his unprecedented and unmatched five consecutive Belmont Stakes wins, two Kentucky Derby trophies, five Kentucky Oaks wins, one Preakness Stakes win, and an induction into the Racing Hall of Fame in 1976, followed shortly thereafter by an Eclipse award as the top trainer in the United States in 1983.
Though Mr. Stephens died in 1998, his legacy lives on through the descendants of the horses he’d trained, as well as through his outstanding list of racing accomplishments.
Jockey World member Zoe Bragg has been riding for as long as she can remember and has been involved in a variety of disciplines (endurance, saddleseat, vaulting, cross-country,showjumping, western pleasure, and dressage). Zoe is currently showing horses owned by others in dressage trials. One of her biggest goals is to be a jockey as well as to eventually train racehorses.
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"Went The Day Well"
May 14 2012, by JW Member Katie Clawson
 When coming into the Kentucky Derby with a lightly raced horse, there will be some speculation. Can the horse get the 1 ¼ mile distance, will he like Churchill’s track, and of course, is he good enough? Went The Day Well may not have won the Derby, but he showed how good he really is.
Bred in New York by James Patrick Delaney, Went The Day Well is by Proud Citizen, Tiz Maie’s Day, by Tiznow. He was sold at the Keeneland November 2009 Breeding Stock Sale for $15,000 and then at Tattersalls October 2010 Yearling Sale for $43,385.
Went The Day Well raced twice in Europe for trainer Ed McMahon and placed in both. Team Valor International and Mark Ford then bought the colt and brought him stateside to trainer H. Graham Motion’s barn. In his U.S. debut, he never fired and ran fourth at Gulfstream Park with Edgar Prado up. Now with Javier Castellano aboard, Went The Day Well powered home to get his first win by 1 ¼. Went The Day Well later won the Spiral Stakes by 3 ½ with John Velazquez piloting and earned a spot in the Derby. Things didn’t go his way in the early stages of the Kentucky Derby, but finished a fast closing fourth with Velazquez. He is expected to race in the Preakness Stakes next.
 Jockey World member Katie Clawson has been riding horses since she was 8 years old. Her favorite race horse is Zenyatta. Katie's dream is to go to NARA and become a jockey! Additionally, Katie continues to help support Jockey World as being part of Jockey World's Member Advisory Committee to assist with projects to help educate others in horse racing.
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"Rosie Napravnik"
May 14, 2012 by JW member Michaela Heair
 Anna Rose “Rosie” Napravnik came into this world February 9, 1988 in Morristown, New Jersey. She was brought up around the presence of horses, and grew knowing what she wanted to pursue. Napravnik took the major step of taking out her jockey license in 2005. It didn’t take her long to show what kind of rider she is. When she started she was one of the top riders in Maryland and continues to be the top female rider in the United States. In 2006, it was her breakout year; she finished with 300 victories out of 1,465 mounts with earnings of $6,395,075. That same year she was runner up for the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. Also, she has achieved riding titles at Pimlico Racecourse and Laurel Park Racecourse at all 4 meets. In order to get to her success as a female jockey, she has had to overcome major injuries. She suffered a broken left leg in a racing accident at Delaware Park in August 2008. After healing up and awaiting her return for the races, she came back in November 2008 on the New York circuit. She rode Pants on Fire to a 9th place finish at the 2011 Kentucky Derby, the best finish for a woman in the history of the Derby. It was with a Jones horse that she made history just this month. She rode Believe You Can to a victory in the Kentucky Oaks, making her the first female to win the race.
Jockey World member Michaela Heair is a high school student. An aspiring jockey, Michaela hopes to attend the North American Racing Academy. Besides being a member of Jockey World, Michaela is dedicated to her studies as well as health and fitness.
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The importance of fruits and vegetables. By health and wellness expert Fred Clemons, M.Ed.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
problems with becoming a jockey
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
inspiring horse racing quotes
Friday, December 30, 2011
a kids dream
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Another day closer to being a jockey- Dec. 15, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
An Inspiration On and Off the Track: Chris McCarron
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