Rajiv Maragh (born July 9, 1985, in

Spanish Town Spanish Town ( jam, label= Jamaican Creole, Panish Tong) is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. T ...

, Jamaica) is a jockey in American

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horse racing. An Indo-Jamaican, he is the son of a jockey who rode in Jamaica before relocating to

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where he began a career as a

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. Rajiv Maragh rode his first winner at Tampa Bay Downs on February 1, 2003. He got his big break in 2008 when he was 14th in the national earnings list. Rapidly developing into a top jockey since moving north to compete at NYRA tracks, in 2009 he has been a winner of several

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races. He was seriously injured in a spill at Belmont Park in July 2015 and has been cleared in November 2016 to start riding again. He rode Mucho Macho Man to a 3rd-place finish at the

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. He rode his first Breeder's Cup winner on Caleb's Posse in the dirt mile. In 2017 he relocated to

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and the same year was honored with Comeback Jockey Of The Year Award.

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Rajiv Maragh at the NTRA
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maragh, Rajiv 1985 births Living people American jockeys Jamaican emigrants to the United States Jamaican jockeys Jamaican people of Indian descent People from Spanish Town