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ridersup
05-12-2002, 11:44 AM
M R Cruz was leading jockey at Tampa Bay Downs and pretty much rode rings around the local boys.

He has moved his tack to a more competitive track, i.e. Calder.
Going into yesterday he had 6 mounts at Calder winning 1 and coming in 3d in another.

Yesterday at Calder he had 6 mounts and won 3 with prices of 5.60, 11.80, and 18.00. At Tampa he rode exclusively for Henry Collazo and had a phenomanel win percentage. Kathleen O'Connell used him at Tampa and 2 of his wins yesterday were for her. Look for both trainers to hand him live mounts.

The kid can ride and I look for the more solid trainers to start using him.

ridersup
05-26-2002, 09:49 AM
M.R. Cruz is slowly moving himself up in the CRC jockey standings to the point where he is in 4th place with very few mounts.

During the last four days he had 20 mounts with 4 wins of $3.20, $3.40, $23.80 and yesterday he hit the big one for $70.20.

In addition he had 5 place finnishes one being at 14-1 and another at 26-1. Finally he had 2 shows at nice odds. In all he is 11 in the money for 20 starts riding some pretty bad horses.

He is catching the eye of some of the better trainers picking up rides for Marty Wolfson, James Hatchett, and Manny Tortora.

Looks like he has a rosy future at CRC.