{"id":20992,"date":"2013-05-02T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20992"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:58:38","slug":"kevin-krigger-1st-black-jockey-in-kentucky-derby-since-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20992","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Krigger: 1st Black Jockey In Kentucky Derby Since 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 A little known jockey and a lightly regarded horse pulled off an upset victory for trainer <strong>Doug O\u2019Neill<\/strong> at last year\u2019s Kentucky Derby.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he\u2019ll give another relative unknown a chance of not only winning the big race but joining him in the record books if that happens. <strong>Kevin Krigger<\/strong>, the first black jockey in the Derby since 2000, will be aboard <strong>O\u2019Neill\u2019s <\/strong>Goldencents, considered a much stronger contender than last year\u2019s winner, I\u2019ll Have Another.<\/p>\n<p>Only six trainers have won consecutive Derbies in 138 years, and no black jockey has won since 1902. The 29-year-old <strong>Krigger <\/strong>hails from St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and had some success on the smaller Northern California circuit before trying his luck in the big leagues of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 A little known jockey and a lightly regarded horse pulled off an upset victory for trainer Doug O\u2019Neill at last year\u2019s Kentucky Derby. On Saturday, he\u2019ll give another relative unknown a chance of not only winning the big race but joining him in the record books if that happens. Kevin Krigger, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}