Chris McCarron
Chris McCarron
Christopher John "Chris" McCarronis a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey...
ProfessionHorse Jockey
Date of Birth27 March 1955
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It's unfair to the trainers to have a smaller pool of truly skilled and talented riders at their disposal.
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I think Del Mar has always been an incredibly competitive and aggressively approached meet. I'm not sure why there have been more controversial cases this summer, but I vividly remember it always being an aggressively ridden meet by the riders. There's a lot at stake down here.
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With the two-year associate's degree, it's good in case some of these guys find out, once they start riding daily that they don't like it, they'll have other options.
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It's going to be a full-blown community or technical college course.
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It was a fascinating trip, ... I learned a lot that will be beneficial to our students. Practically every country involved in horse racing requires some licensing. We have the best racing, the best horses, and the best farms, yet we have no school.
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The irony of the situation is that we have the best racing in the world and jockeys come here from all over the world and try to emulate and mimic the style of American riders,
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You cannot name another professional sport in which the athletes have not had coaches teaching them for much of their life,
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It's a perfect fit, ... We need a lot of horses, and this will be a big feather in our cap.
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This is truly a historic opportunity for all facets of the horse-racing industry. Never before has there been a program of this kind in the United States. This academy will allow jockeys -- and eventually all those interested in the horse-racing industry -- to develop career pathways that will allow them to reach training and educational goals they never knew were possible.
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One real misconception, that I realized shortly after I moved out here, was that this was a vacation for the riders,
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One of the things I'm most pleased about is that, so far, everyone we asked to come on the board accepted--it's a who's who of racing,
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This will eventually be a like lot some of the jockey schools in other countries around the world,
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There are a number of riders in the jocks' room here who have what it takes to be leaders, except that they're maybe a little too quiet,
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I think it's a golden opportunity for someone who wants to become a race rider to capitalize on by getting an education from a group of people who have been there, done it a long time and are not trying to pull the wool over their eyes so to speak.