Mario Pino, the accidental jockey
Mario Pino never really planned to become a jockey, but once he did, it turned into a remarkable 7,000-win career.
Mario Pino never really planned to become a jockey, but once he did, it turned into a remarkable 7,000-win career.
Reitred jockey Mario Pino, a Delaware native who won 7,001 career races, top 10 all time, joins us in today’s podcast.
Completing our 2021 wrapup, we remember some of the most important, exciting and memorable Mid-Atlantic races of 2021.
In a new “Off the Pace”: Mike Valiante recaps a baker’s dozen of the top Midlantic racing stories of 2021.
With his 7,000th win — and career — now in the books, Mario Pino has been named the Jockeys’ Guild’s Jockey of the Week.
Jockey Mario Pino, a longtime Mid-Atlantic stalwart, became only the 10th rider to win 7,000 races when he won two at Presque Isle Downs Oct. 20.
Jockey Mario Pino is thisclose to 7,000 career wins. . So why does this pending metaphorical ribbon on a grand career feel like a slipknot?
Four-year-old Lift Up earned her first stakes win and her fifth victory in six starts in Saturday’s Miss Liberty at Monmouth Park.
The 2018 live racing meet at Delaware Park will be the first conducted with full sports betting legalized, the track expecting to start taking bets in June.
Veteran jockey Mario Pino, who rode Hard Spun to Grade 1 glory, will return to Delaware Park as his home base for 2018 for the first time in 10 years.