Horse Racing
Gonzalez rode his first winner at Gulfstream Park
Apprentice jockey Melvis Gonzalez scored his first win on May 12 at the Gulfstream Parkinstruct Great wind to win by 1 3/4 lengths in the first declared event marked as race 4.
The Panama Racecourse graduate found the winner’s circle on his eighth mount, a 3-year-old Jacks or Better Farm homebred gelding trained by Carlos David.
“I’m happy to get my first win,” Gonzalez said. I love riding at Gulfstream.” “We wanted to lead and we did.”
Gonzalez is represented by agent Chantal Sutherland, a multiple Grade 1 stakes winning jockey.
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