Rafael Q. Meza (born February 19, 1958) is an American retired jockey who competed in

Thoroughbred The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are ...

horse racing in the United States. A native of

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, Meza began riding in California near the end of the 1970s. and would spend his career riding from a base in that State. In 1982 he was the second- leading rider at the spring/summer meeting at

Golden Gate Fields Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing race track, track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the clo ...

Los Angeles Times - July 15, 1982
/ref> and enjoyed his best year in racing in 1986 when he won six important races at tracks in California,

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and

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meza, Rafael 1958 births Living people American jockeys Mexican jockeys Sportspeople from Tijuana Mexican emigrants to the United States