Eurico Rosa da Silva (born June 29, 1975, in Buri, São Paulo, Brazil) is a retired Thoroughbred racing jockey who raced for five years in his native Brazil and another four years in Macau before coming to Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. While based in Canada, he also won races in the United States.
Silva got his first Canadian Triple Crown win in 2009 when he rode Eye of the Leopard to victory in the Queen's Plate, and won that race again in 2010 aboard Big Red Mike. Among his other successes, in 2016 he won the Woodbine Oaks, riding Neshama. In 2017, he won the Canadian International Stakes riding Bullards Alley. In 2019, he won the Woodbine Mile with El Tormenta.[1]
Eurico Rosa da Silva retired at the end of the 2019 racing season having won 2,286 races.[2] Six times he was voted the Sovereign Award for Canada's Outstanding Jockey. He received the award for a seventh time in 2019.[3][4]
For his significant contributions to the sport of Thoroughbred racing, Eurico Rosa da Silva was the 2021 recipient of the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award.[5]
Autobiography
editOn December 1, 2020, Eurico Rosa da Silva's autobiography titled "Riding for Freedom" was published. The book, containing what TSN described as having "many shocking revelations," recounts his rise to the top levels of Thoroughbred racing while struggling with the effects of a verbally abusive and negligent father which had at times led him to the brink of taking his own life.[6]
References
edit- ^ 2018 Woodbine Media Guide Archived October 15, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Eurico Rosa da Silva". Equibase Co LLC. 2021-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ woodbine.com Woodbine honours jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva Archived September 24, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Past Award Winners". The Jockey Club Canada. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
- ^ Toronto Star Accomplished rider Rosa da Silva named 2021 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award recipient Archived August 6, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ TSN.ca Veteran jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva makes many shocking revelations in autobiography Archived March 2, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
External links
editYear-end charts
edit| Chart (2007–present) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2007 | 73 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2008 | 31 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2009 | 27 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2010 | 12 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2011 | 22 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2012 | 19 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2013 | 19 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2014 | 24 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2015 | 22 |
| National Earnings List for Jockeys 2016 | 26 |