Teen Jockey's Big Ride ; Jara Fulfills Owner's Faith Aboard Jazil in Belmont

The Record, Bergen County, NJ › June 11, 2006

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ELMONT, N.Y. You'll have to excuse Fernando Jara. This Triple Crown experience is still all very new to him.

So shortly after the 18-year-old jockey rode Jazil to victory in the Belmont Stakes, he stepped on the scales to be weighed before starting for the jockey's room. He still had two more horses to ride in the final races on Saturday's 13-race bet-a-thon.

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Teen Jockey's Big Ride ; Jara Fulfills Owner's Faith Aboard Jazil in Belmont

Then somebody whispered in his ear and Jara joined Jazil's connections in the winner's circle for the television interviews and other pomp and circumstance that accompany a Belmont victo...

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