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Florent Geroux
Record at Keeneland
Career Firsts
Starters in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes
|
Year |
Horse |
Finish |
|---|---|---|
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2024 |
Just a Touch |
2nd |
|
2023 |
Sun Thunder |
4th |
|
2022 |
Blackadder |
9th |
|
2021 |
Rombauer |
3rd |
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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. Stakes wins during that year's Fall meet were a second consecutive victory on Idiomatic in the Juddmonte Spinster (G1) and a victory in the Hagyard Fayette (G2) on Hit Show.
Other stakes wins here 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; and Juju's Map in the 2021 Darley Alcibiades.
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 2,232 wins and earnings nearing $179 million in North America through Dec. 18, 2024.
Click here for his Equibase career record.
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.