Cedeno Wins Record Seven Races on Delaware Card
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Photo: Chad B. Harmon
Carol Cedeno
Former three-time leading rider, Carol Cedeno set the record for most wins by a jockey on a single Delaware Park card by notching seven victories July 11.
Cedeno started her record-setting day by winning the first four races on the ten-race card. In the first race, she scored aboard Home Team Stables' Warrior Lake for trainer Scott Lake, then in the second she booted home Ron Hendrickson's Golden Ray for trainer Jorge Navarro. In the third race she won with Craig Minten's Posterity for trainer Wayne Potts and in the fourth race she scored with J. Christopher Everett's Make My Saturday for Lake.
The 27-year-old native of Puetro Rico continued her winning ways in the sixth race by scoring aboard Final Turn Racing Stable's Here's to Mike for Navarro. She followed with a victory in the seventh race aboard Take 2 Racing Stable's Southern Christmas for Lake. Her record setting seventh victory came in the 10th race, the Arabian race, aboard Betty Gillis' Tiffanys Dream for trainer Jerenesto Torrez.
Her only losses were in the fifth and eighth races. She did not have a mount in the ninth race. Cedeno's horses won from distances ranging from five furlongs to one-mile and 70-yards. Five of her wins (including the Arabian race) came on dirt and two were on turf. Cedeno won three races on the front end, including the Arabian race, and she rallied from sixth in three of the victories. Of the seven wins, four of the horses were favorites; the longest shot was 5-1 Make My Saturday.
Cedeno is the current leading jockey at Delaware 25 days into the meet with a record of 32 wins from 135 mounts. She was the leading rider at Delaware from 2014-2016. Last year, she finished second in the standings, three wins behind Scott Spieth.
Six riders have won six races on a single Delaware card. They are: Joseph Rocco Jr., in 2011; Michael McCarthy, who accomplished the feat twice—once in 1997 and again in 1998; Jimmy Edwards, in 1984; Greg McCarron, in 1974; George Cusimano, in 1968; and Eldon Nelson in 1958.