Jockey Mike Luzzi has officially retired from the saddle, reports the Daily Racing Form. The winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in 1989, Luzzi won a total of 3,539 races over the course of his career.
Now, 54-year-old Luzzi will serve as the agent for his son, Lane, who has been riding at Aqueduct Racetrack since October.
“It was [my son's] idea,” Luzzi told DRF. “Reluctantly, I'm going to finish my career. It's tough, I still felt like I had a comeback in me.”
Born Oct. 27, 1969, Luzzi was raised in-part by his grandfather, legendary trainer Buddy Raines, who also trained one of Luzzi's biggest early stakes winners—Timely Warning, with whom Luzzi won the 1991 Maryland Million Classic at Pimlico and Grade 1 Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont Park.
Luzzi was named the winner of the 2015 George Woolf Memorial Award, as well as New York's prestigious Mike Venezia Memorial Jockey Award in 2001.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
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