<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Significant horses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Awesome Again, Arrogate, Azeri, Bodemeister, Cherokee Run, Coronado's Quest, Drosselmeyer, Giacomo, Game On Dude, Holy Bull, Justify, Lure, Madeo, Mizdirection, Palace Malice, Prairie Bayou, Royal Delta, Shared Belief, Skip Away, Sky Beauty, Songbird, Stardom Bound, Thunder Gulch, Tiago, Unbridled's Song, Vindication, West Coast, Zenyatta </Td> </Tr> <P> Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003, and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 26 Breeders' Cup wins . Smith is also the second leading jockey of all time in earnings with over $312 million . In 2018, Smith rode Justify to the Triple Crown, becoming the oldest jockey to win the title at age 52 . </P> <P> Smith was born to George Smith, a one - time jockey, and Vidoll Vallejos in New Mexico; his mother was 19 years old at the time . The older of two sons, Smith's parents divorced when he was still a small child . Smith spent most of his youth on his maternal grandparents' horse farm where he began breaking horses at eight years old . </P>

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