Ryan Moore, who guided three horses to Breeders' Cup victories during the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland Nov. 4-5, won the 20th Bill Shoemaker Award for the outstanding jockey of the two-day event. The Shoemaker Award goes to the jockey who rides the most winners in the 14 Championship races with the tiebreaker being 10-3-1 point system for second- through fourth-place finishes.
Moore, who also won the Shoemaker Award in 2015, won Saturday's GI Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf on Tuesday (Ire), and Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf on Victoria Road (Ire) in addition to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Meditate (Ire). He also finished three seconds with Stone Age (Ire) in the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Turf, Emaraaty Ana (GB) in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and Dramatised (Ire) in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.
Irad Ortiz Jr., winner of the past four Shoemaker Awards, also rode three winners, including a pair of winners Saturday, but only had one runner-up finish.
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