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Ortiz rode his first race at Belmont Park on June 17 and won his first American race on June 24 aboard Millennium Jet. The son of Irad Ortiz and Vilma Morales Adorno. Lion is the astrological symbol and The Fifth House is the ruling house of Leo. was born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico on August 11, 1992.īoth Irad Ortiz and … Ortiz has found great success since moving to the states to ride, and in 2013 had a mount in the Belmont Stakes aboardīut he could never break into the N.Y.R.A. Ortiz was born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico on October 2, 1993. The brothers’ grandfather, Irad Ortiz Adorno, was a jockey at Puerto Rico’s premier racetrack, El Nuevo Comandante, now called Hipódromo Camarero, which is situated in Canóvanas, about twenty miles east of San Juan. Later, he worked at Belmont as a hot walker-one of the stable hands who cool the horses down after their workouts and races by leading them around in circles. was born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico on August 11, 1992. Irad Ortiz putting in some work at Long Island’s Belmont Park. not only became the first jockey to surpass the $30 million mark with $34,109,019 *record, he left the previous mark behind in a cloud of dust. Ortiz (Jose) attended Puerto Rico’s Escuela Vocacional Hípica, a school for prospective jockeys, then moved to the United States in 2012 to join Irad, who had already become a leading jockey. He and his older brother, Irad Ortiz Jr., became interested in the sport from a young age, encouraged by family friend Efraim "Pito" Rosa and mentored by Hall of Fame rider Angel Cordero Jr. At age 16, Ortiz enrolled in Puerto Rico’s Escuela Vocacional Hípica, a school for prospective jockeys. His grandfather, also named Irad Ortiz, was a jockey, as was the uncle, Ivan Ortiz. Irad the elder, who is seventy-one and now lives in Brooklyn, tried to make it as a jockey in the United States in the nineteen-eighties, riding in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio.