2007 Gulfstream Record

• Best known as the first-call jockey for the Todd Pletcher stable in New Jersey and one of Pletcher’s first options at Gulfstream after John Velazquez.
• It was in that role that he scored 2007 stakes wins in the Orchid Handicap at Gulfstream on Safari Queen, the Azeri at Oaklawn Park on India and the Kentucky Cup Ladies Turf at Kentucky Downs on Quiet Royal.
• DeCarlo became the youngest jockey in modern times to win the prestigious Haskell at his hometown Monmouth when, at age 17, he piloted Wise Times in 1986.
• Has also summered at Arlington and Belmont while returning to ride each winter at Gulfstream.
• He is consistently among the leaders at Monmouth and has lead the colony there in stakes victories and earnings, winning 12 races at Monmouth and the Meadowlands in 2007.
• Among his biggest Gulfstream wins came aboard Deelightful Irving in 2002 Pan American Handicap.
• Spent four months riding in France in 1994.
• Other:

  Grandfather was a popular singer and racetrack aficionado in Puerto Rico where one of his fans was Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero … Cordero put him on a horse at age 4 and promised him a riding career if he stayed small in size … Took riding lessons until age 15, and then moved in with Cordero in New York where he started galloping horses for Allen Jerkens … Won aboard Romeo’s Mistress, his first mount, in New York on May 3, 1985 … The following day Cordero won his third Kentucky Derby aboard Spend a Buck … First child born in September 2007