Jockey Bios

Florent Geroux

Born: July 16, 1986 in Argentan, Normandy, France

Record at Keeneland

Total Wins: 203

Stakes Wins: 32

Career Firsts

First Grade 1 Win: 2014 Xpressbet Breeders' Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Work All Week

First Stakes Win: 2010 Leemat Stakes at Presque Isle Downs on Zoeling

First Graded Stakes Win: 2010 Pucker Up (G3) at Arlington Park on Dade Babe

First Career Win: (In France) May 6, 2004, at Longchamp on Chopyluz

Starters in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes

Year	Horse	Finish
2024	Just a Touch	2nd
2023	Sun Thunder	4th
2022	Blackadder	9th
2021	Rombauer	3rd
2019	Dream Maker	13th

At Keeneland

First win came during the 2008 Spring Meet.

First stakes win was the 2014 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G3) on Work All Week.

Leading rider during the 2018 Spring Meet with 20 wins.

Rode Encino to win the Stonestreet Lexington (G3) during the 2024 Spring Meet.

32 Keeneland stakes wins include Grade 1 victories aboard Her Emmynency in the 2015 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, Catch a Glimpse in the 2015 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Mongolian Saturday in the 2015 TwinSpires Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, I'm a Chatterbox in the 2016 Juddmonte Spinster, Monomoy Girl in the 2018 Central Bank Ashland and 2020 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Aunt Pearl (IRE) in the 2020 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf; Juju's Map in the 2021 Darley Alcibiades; and Idiomatic in the 2023 Juddmonte Spinster.

Career

Triple Crown win: 2021 Kentucky Derby on Mandaloun

Breeders’ Cup wins (8): 2014 Sprint on Work All Week; 2015 Juvenile Fillies Turf on Catch a Glimpse and Turf Sprint on Mongolian Saturday; 2017 Classic on Gun Runner and 2018 Distaff on Monomoy Girl; 2020 Distaff on Monomoy Girl and Juvenile Fillies Turf on Aunt Pearl (IRE); 2023 Distaff on Idiomatic

2,000th North American win came Jan. 26, 2023, at Fair Grounds aboard Warrant in the fifth race.

1,000th career victory came Dec. 29, 2016, at Fair Grounds aboard Mr. Misunderstood in the second race.

Has 2,165 wins and earnings exceeding $168 million in North America through May 12, 2024.

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Background

Florent’s father, Dominique Geroux, was a jockey and trainer. Florent was 13 when he entered a jockey school in his native France and at 17 began race riding. He was the leading apprentice in France in 2005.

He moved to California in 2007 as an apprentice and exercised horses and rode a few runners for trainer Patrick Biancone. But visa problems and two serious injuries forced him to leave. He went to Ireland and worked at Coolmore Stud for six months. His visa problems were resolved, and he returned to the U.S. in 2008.