Birth date: June 6, 1983
Birthplace: Maracaibo, Venezuela

• Finished seventh in the Delaware Park jockey standings in 2012, second in 2011, tenth in 2009, fourth in 2008, ninth in 2007, ninth in 2005 and seventh in 2004.
• Notched career win 1,000 on December 19, 2007, when he guided Johnny Z to victory at Laurel Park.
• Notched first career winner aboard Ser Samantha on September 22, 1999 in his native country.
• Began riding in the United States at Gulfstream Park in 2000.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Nick Shuk; Sussex
2011: First State Dash
2010: Brandywine
2009: Dover
2007: Blue Hen
2005: Sussex
2004: Caesar Rodney

Birth date: December 19, 1965
Birthplace: Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

• Has been riding full-time at Delaware Park since 2000.
• Finished third in the DelPark jockey standings in 2012, eighth in 2011, sixth in 2009, seventh in 2008, sixth in 2007, sixth in 2006, fifth in 2005, sixth in 2004, fourth in 2003, seventh in 2002, eighth in 2001 and sixth in 2000.
• Notched first win in the United States at Thistledown on April 18, 1984.
• Notched first career victory in his first race aboard Key Measurement at El Commandante in Puerto Rico in 1984.
• Notched career win 2,000 aboard Yankee Gal at Laurel Park on November 23, 2005.
• Ranked as top apprentice at Thistledown in 1984.
• Has also ridden at Philadelphia Park, Suffolk Downs, and Hialeah.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Eight Thirty; Small Wonder; Winter Melody
2011: Dover
2010: George Rosenberger
2009: New Castle; Susan's Girl
2008: Blue Hen, Fairway
2007: Go For Wand
2004: Go For Wand
2003: NATC Futurity\

Birth date: December 18, 1971
Birthplace: Caracas, Venezuela

• Last year, his first full season at Delaware Park, he finished third in the standings with a record of 79 wins from 364 mounts.
• Four-time leading jockey at Tampa Bay Downs from 2007 through 2010.
• Won the Tampa Bay Derby aboard Musket Man in 2009.
• Began his riding career in his native country in 1990 before moving his tack stateside in 2003.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Endine, Unbridled Belle

Birth date: July 31, 1987
Birthplace: Puerto Rico

• Finished second in the Delaware Park jockey standings in 2012, 12th in 2011, and 14th in 2010.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012:  Forever Togther; Sweet & Sassy

Birth date: October 29, 1984
Birthplace: Torsen, CA

• In 2009, he was the leading rider at Delaware Park with a record of 152 winners, 89 seconds and 78 thirds from 558 mounts.
• Finished fifth by wins in North America jockey standings in 2009 with 288 victories.
• Notched first career winner aboard Quiten Boy, a 45-to-1 longshot, on August 11, 2004 at Del Mar.
• Notched career win 1,000 aboard Bob’s Pinup Girl at Belmont Park on October 14, 2011.
• In 2006 won the $2 million Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at Nad al Sheba, U.A.E. aboard Proud Tower Too.

• In 2006, won Grade III Will Rogers Stakes at Hollywood Park aboard Stratham.
• In 2005, won Grade I Malibu Stakes at Hollywood Park aboard Proud Tower Too.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2009: Small Wonder; Vincent A. Moscarelli

• Won Grade I Breeders' Cup Turf at Lone Star Park aboard Better Talk Now in 2004.
• Won Grade I Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap at Saratoga aboard Better Talk Now in 2004.
• Won Grade I Wood Memorial at Aqueduct aboard Tapit in 2004.
• Won Grade I Man o' War Handicap at Belmont Park aboard Better Talk Now in 2005.
• Won Grade II Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds aboard High Limit in 2005.
• Won Grade I Pimlico Distaff aboard Invasor in 2006.
• Finished second in the Kentucky Derby aboard Bluegrass Cat in 2006.
• Began riding in Venezuela at the age of 16.
• Rode his first race at La Rinconda Racecourse in his native country in 1995.
• Came to the United States in 1995 and began riding in 1996 at Hialeah.
• His first win was aboard Solo Moondance in March of 1996.
• Won 4,000th career race at Aqueduct on March 19, 2010 aboard Fortyninegeorgest.
• Won Grade I Breeders' Cup Turf at Lone Star Park aboard Better Talk Now in 2004.
• Recipent of the George Woolf Award in 2012.


DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2011 Sussex; RRM Carpenter Jr.
2010: Kent Stakes
2008: Francis "Jock" LaBelle, Go For Wand, Light Hearted, Obeah, Peach Blossom, Sussex, Rosenberger
2007: Delaware Handicap; Light Hearted; DTHA Owners’ Day, Vincent Moscarelli
2006: DTHA Owners Day, Endine, Go For Wand, John Rooney, Leonard Richards, Peach Blossom, R.R.M. Carpenter, Jr.,Vincent A. Moscarelli
2005: Go For Wand, Kelso , Kent BC, Obeah, Nick Shuk
2004: Legal Light, Light Hearted, Robert G. Dick,
2003: Brandywine, Cape Henlopen , Kent , NATC Sorority, Rosenberger Mem. , Sussex
2002: Appointment, Brandywine, Go For Wand, Summer King, Legal Light, Leonard Richards, Nick Shuk, Obeah, Gleaming, RRM Carpenter, Robert Dick
2001: Brandywine, Candy Éclair, Delaware Handicap, Draft Card, Kent Breeders' Cup, Local Thriller, Polly's Jet, Quick Card, Vincent Moscarelli Mem., RRM Carpenter Mem.
1999: Autumn Leaf, Everget, Nick Shuk, Owners' Day Dash
1998: Sequential Lady

Birth date: September 2, 1984
Birthplace: Carolina, Puerto Rico

• Notched his 1,000th career win aboard See the U S A at Laurel Park on October 9, 2009.
• Notched first career win at El Commandante on December 25, 2002.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012:  John Rooney

Birth date: February 9, 1988
Birthplace: Morristown, New Jersey

• Was runner-up for Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice in 2006.
• Notched her 1,000th career win aboard Laughing Charlie at Delaware Park on October 27, 2010.
• Was first female leading rider in Delaware Park history when she notched 126 winners in 2010.
• Finished second in the Delaware Park jockey standings by wins in 2009 and fifth in 2008.
• Was leading rider at the Fair Grounds during the 2010-11 to become the first female to capture the leading jockey title in track history.  She followed by winning her second title at the Fair Grounds in the 2011-2012 season.

• Won the Grade II Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds aboard Pants on Fire in 2011.
• Was leading rider in Maryland in 2006 by having 259 combined victories at Laurel and Pimlico.
• Won first career race on her first mount guiding Ringofdiamonds to victory at Pimlico on June 9, 2005.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2011: Small Wonder
2010: John Rooney, DTHA Governors Day, Tax Free Shopping
2008: Susan’s Girl Stakes

Birth date: January 30, 1981
Birthplace: Cali, Columbia

• Notched his 1,000th career win aboard Pet Me Pet Me at Delaware Park on September 19, 2011.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012:  John Rooney

Birth date: September 8, 1961
Birthplace: West Grove, PA

• First career winner was aboard Ed's Desire at Bowie Race Course on Jan. 16, 1979.
• Won 6,000th career race at Laurel Park on Nov. 7, 2007 aboard Pass Play.
• Won 5,000th career race at Delaware Park on Sept. 8, 2002 aboard Outdone.
• Won 4,500th career race at Laurel Park on Feb. 16, 2001 aboard Special County.
• Won 4,000th career race at Pimlico on April 29, 1999 aboard Report For Don.
• Won 3,500th career race at Pimlico on Aug. 16, 1996 aboard Stormy Cloud.
• Won 3,000th career race at Laurel on Mar. 12, 1994 aboard Simoom in the Politely Stakes.

• Won 2,500th career race on Aug. 14, 1991 at Laurel aboard Have You Testified.
• Leading jockey at Delaware Park in 1979 and 1980.
• Finished fourth in the Delaware Park jockey standings in 2007, third in 2006 fourth in 2005 and third in 2004.
• Leading jockey at Laurel in 1979 and 1991 (Summer Meet) and in 1980 at Pimlico.
• In 2007, guided locally owned Hard Spun to second place finishes in the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2010: V. Moscarelli
2008: Dover
2007: Dover
2006: Brandywine, Caesar Rodney, Light Hearted, Nick Shuk, Susan's Girl
2004: Brandywine, George Rosenberger, Obeah, Owners' Day Handicap, Sweet & Sassy
2001: Owners' Day Handicap
2000: Unity Hall
1998: Nastique
1997: Peach Blossom, Sweet & Sassy
1982: William DuPont Jr.

Birth date: July 19, 1982
Birthplace: Hollywood, FL

• Won his first career leading jockey title when he notched 94 winners at Delaware Park in 2011.
• Finished sixth in the 2012 jockey standings at Delaware Park, 12th in 2010, seventh in 2009, second in 2008, 12th in 2007,11th in 2003,16th in 2002 and 11th in 2001.
• Notched first career win at Tampa Downs in 1999.
• Won aboard six of his seven mounts at Delaware Park on July 27.2011.  The feat equaled the record for most wins by a jockey on a single card at Delaware Park.  The others are Michael McCarthy (1997 & 1998), Jimmy Edwards (1984) Greg McCarron (1974), George Cusimano (1968) and Eldon Nelson (1958).
• Father, Joe Rocco Sr., is an active jockey at Delaware Park.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Hockessin
2011: Blue Hen, John W. Rooney
2009: Blue Hen, John W. Rooney
2008: Delaware Certified Distaff
2003: Legal Light

Birth date: April 1, 1979
Birthplace: Bellafonte, PA

• Won 2005 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes aboard Afleet Alex.
• Won the 2005 Arkansas Derby aboard Afleet Alex.
• Finished second in Grade I Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Lone Star Park aboard Afleet Alex in 2004.
• Won 2001 Eclipse Award for Apprentice Jockey.
• Notched first career winner aboard Daly's Princess, who was trained by Mike Petro, on September 23, 2000, at Delaware Park.
• Notched 1,000th career victory aboard Margarita Maggie at Delaware Park on July 3, 2005.

• Notched 2,000th career victory aboard Cherokee Queen at Gulfstream Park on January 28, 2010.
• Scored first stake victory aboard the Tim Ritchey trained Citiroyal in the Francis “Jock” LaBelle Memorial at Delaware Park on May 13, 2001.
• Finished sixth in the Delaware Park jockey standings in 2011, second in 2010, third in 2009, first in 2007, second in 2006, third in 2005, fourth in 2004, ninth in 2003, second in 2002, and first in 2001.
• Showed Quarter Horses in cowboy regalia - Western equitation, showmanship and Western pleasure - as a child and teenager.
• Was top high school wrestler who made it to the Pennsylvania state finals.
• First visit to a racetrack came after high school graduation in 1998 with family friend Bob Szeyller, a breeder/owner at Penn National Race Course who had been suggesting for years Rose's size would make him the perfect rider.
• Another family friend, hunter-jumper Ben Guanciolle, got Rose a job on a Puerto Rican farm breaking babies in September 1998. Nine months later he returned home to work as a hotwalker-groom-excercise boy for trainer Michael Petro. Petro and his brother Nick, a jockey, taught him to race-ride.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Go For Wand, New Castle, Obeah
2011: Go For Wand; George Rosenberger; Kent Stake
2009: First State Dash; Owners Day; Robert G. Dick
2007: John Rooney; Nick Shuk Memorial; Robert G. Dick Memorial; Endine
2006: Sweet & Sassy
2005: John W. Rooney
2004: John W. Rooney
2003: Light Hearted, V. Moscarelli Mem.
2002: Blue Hen, Damitrius, Justakiss, Late Bloomer,
2001: Blue Hen, Eight Thirty, First State , Francis “Jock” LaBelle Mem., Leader of the Band, Royal Signal

Birth date: February 1, 1988
Birthplace: Port Darien, Panama
• Finished fifth in the Delaware Park jockey standings in 2011, third in 2010, eighth in 2009, third in 2008, seventh in 2007 and seventh in 2006.
• Started riding in Panama in 2004.
• Was the leading apprentice in Panama in 2005.
• Moved to the United States in February of 2006.
• Was victorious in his first race as an apprentice in the U.S., as well as his first race as a journeyman. 
• In 2008, won both Grade I Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs and Grade I Alabama Stakes at Saratoga aboard Proud Spell.

• Finished second in first Breeders’ Cup mount aboard Proud Spell in the Juvenile Fillies in 2007.
• Finished second aboard Eight Belles in the 2008 Kentucky Derby.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2011: Obeah
2010: Barbaro
2008: Delaware Oaks, Endine
2007: Denise Rhudy

Birth date: November 19, 1992
Birthplace: Chorio, Panama

• The leading rider at Delaware Park last year with a record of 104 winners, 75 seconds and 74 thirds from 492 mounts.
• Moved tack to Delaware Park from his native country in 2009.
• Finished seventh in the Delaware Park jockey standings in 2011 and 11th in 2010.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Carl Hanford; George Rosenberger

Birth date: October 18, 1977
Birthplace: Puerto Rico

• Notched first career victory aboard Classic Ship at El Comandante on January 1, 1996.
• Won Grade II Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds aboard Wimbledon in 2004.
• As the regular rider for Tackleberry, he won the Grade II Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship on February 12, 2011 and the Grade II Gulfstream Park Handicap on March 12, 2011.  He also won the Grade III Fred Hooper Handicap at Calder on December 11, 2010 aboard the Florida-bred conditioned by Luis Olivares.
• Won the Puerto Triple Crown, consisting of the Puerto Rico Derby, the Gobernador, and the San Juan, at El Commandante in back-to-back years.  In 2001, he won with Estrellero and in 2002 he won the aboard the Mediavilla R., who became the first filly to achieve the feat.

• Won Grade II San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita aboard Preachinatthebar in 2004.
• Won Grade III El Conjejo Handicap at Santa Anita aboard With Distinction in 2006.

DELAWARE PARK STAKE WINS
2012: Blue Hen