Leading rider Jaime Rodriguez fell a win shy of equaling the United States record for most consecutive winners by a jockey at Delaware Park Sept. 22.
Rodriguez, whose streak began last week, ran his consecutive win stretch to eight by winning the first race aboard Celeritas Racing and Rudy Rodriguez's Valenzan Day, but his streak came to an end when he finished second aboard Diane Manning's Lightfoot Miss in the second race.
According to various sources, Albert Adams set the U.S. record of nine in 1930. The record was equaled by Anthony Black in 1993 and then again by Travis Dunkelberger in 2009. The North American record of 14 consecutive wins was set by Tim Moccasin in Canada in 2001.
Rodriguez's consecutive win streak started Sept. 16, when he rode the final three winners at Delaware Park. He won aboard Runnymoore Racing's Late Frost in the sixth race, followed by winning aboard Norman L. Rader's Riveting Spirit in the seventh race, and then with Gelfenstein Farm's Soupster in the eighth race.
On Sept. 17, he rode all four of his mounts to victory at Delaware, beginning with Charles Blanford and Jagger's The Colora Kid in the second race, followed by Bell Gable Stable's Bourbon Over Ice in the fourth race, Team Hanley's The Elle Train in the fifth, and Skull Stable's Battle Cry in the sixth race.
Rodriguez, 31, notched his first riding title at Delaware Park last year.
