Cabrera rode Thursday before returning to his native Mexico because of a “family issue,” Santos said Sunday morning, adding the jockey's timetable for returning is unknown.Baze is the seventh-leading rider at the Santa Anita winter/spring meet, but that venue has been in a state of flux after it was announced March 5 that racing was being suspended indefinitely because of poor weather and track conditions.Santos said Oaklawn track announcer Vic Stauffer, Baze's former agent, was instrumental in getting the jockey to Hot Springs. Tyler had at least 1 relationship in the past. Santos began the meet with David Cabrera, Israel Rodriguez and apprentice Luis Fuentes.Rodriguez's last day as a regular was Thursday, Santos said, and he will ride this summer at Gulfstream Park.
Just got a phone call. “Sat there for three weeks and didn't do anything and had this opportunity. Joe Rocco Jr., who won 62 races as an Oaklawn regular in … Tyler Baze ‘Taking It Day By Day’ At Oaklawn Park There was plenty of Southern California star power on display last weekend at Oaklawn, notably champion Game Winner and Grade 1 winner Improbable for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert in a split $750,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) … Tyler Baze has not been previously engaged. I was about 8 or 9.”Baze earned an Eclipse Award as the country's champion apprentice jockey of 2000 and entered Sunday with 2,605 victories and $115,877,627 in purse earnings in his North American career, according to Equibase, racing's official data gathering organization. Welcome to Equibase.com, your official source for horse racing results, mobile racing data, statistics as well as all other horse racing and thoroughbred racing information. Just get out of California and try to ride for new people. Cabrera had been named on the first two horses. “It's kind of nice that they run until after the (Arkansas) Derby here. Get your career booming. Rocco said he plans to ride at Oaklawn until the meeting ends.“I didn't want to go to Keeneland,” Rocco said. There was plenty of Southern California star power on display last weekend at Oaklawn, notably champion Game Winner and Improbable jetted home Tuesday, but some of that Southern California star power remained. Like I said, I've got two mortgages and three kids. Baze is named to ride three horses Thursday and five Friday.“Hoping to make it work out good,” Santos said. What's kept me there was my house and now I've got kids. Baze, 36, won an Eclipse Award as the country's top apprentice jockey in 2000 and has been a mainstay on the ultra-tough Southern California circuit for years. Three weeks without a paycheck is a little rough.”A cousin of retired Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze, Baze entered Saturday with 2,607 victories and $116,022,771 in purse earnings in his North American career, according to Equibase, racing's official data gathering organization. He is not dating anyone currently. The top three finishers in the Oaklawn Stakes (last year’s inaugural running was known as the Oaklawn Invitational) receive an automatic berth into the Arkansas Derby, a 1 1/8-mile race that Baffert won in 2012 with Bodemeister and 2015 with future Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Jose called me and offered me this. “I can't sit there and not do anything. Like many celebrities and famous people, Tyler keeps his personal and love life private.