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Julien Leparoux was born on 15 July, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France, is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey (born 1983). Discover Julien Leparoux's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

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Occupation Jockey
Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 15 July, 1983
Birthday 15 July
Birthplace Senlis, Oise, France
Nationality France

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1983

Julien R. Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States.

2003

He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for fellow Frenchman, trainer Patrick Biancone.

2005

In 2005, he became an apprentice jockey.

Leparoux is known as a finesse rider.

Leparoux embarked on his professional riding career in the summer of 2005 at Saratoga Race Course where he earned his first win on July 26 on Easter Guardian.

He finished the Saratoga meet with 28 wins, the most in track history by an apprentice.

2006

In 2006 he was also the leading winning jockey during the Turfway Park winter/spring meet, Churchill Downs spring/summer meet, and Keeneland Race Course spring meet (where he tied with Rafael Bejarano).

For 2006, Julien Leparoux won 403 races to lead all jockeys in the United States.

His total wins and earnings of $12,491,316 for the year were the most by an apprentice jockey in racing history.

He was voted the 2006 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey.

He was also the subject of the Eclipse Award-winning photograph, which showed him being unseated when the filly Sanibel Storm ducked into the rail in the stretch at Keeneland.

Leparoux somersaulted over her head and landed in the infield: both he and the filly were unhurt.

Leparoux "lost the bug" in September 2006, referring to the five-pound weight allowance an apprentice (bug) jockey is given.

Despite this, Leparoux continued winning riding titles, including Turfway's winter/spring meet, Keeneland's spring meet and Churchill Downs' spring/summer meet.

2007

Shea tweeted a picture of Julien and her father with the caption "2007, when Julien rode On the Acorn for dad. He probably never guessed he was looking @ his future son in law".

On June 27, 2007, Leparoux became only the fifth jockey in the 133-year history of Churchill Downs to ride six winners on a single card.

2008

On November 11, 2008 he rode seven winners on a single racecard at Churchill Downs, tying a twenty-four-year-old record set by Pat Day on June 20, 1984.

2009

Leparoux had a career best year in 2009, capped by wins in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on Furthest Land, the Filly & Mare Sprint on Informed Decision and the Juvenile Fillies on She Be Wild.

He won the Shoemaker Award as the winningest jockey at the 2009 Breeders' Cup, being only the 2nd jockey in history to win three Breeders' Cup races in a single year, following Garrett Gomez.

He led the North American earnings list and received the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 2009.

He was only the fourth jockey to win Eclipse Awards as both an apprentice and journeyman.

2012

"I just try not to fight so much with my horses," he said in a 2012 interview.

"I try to be gentle around their mouths."

In December 2012, Julien married Shea Mitchell who, like Julien, is the child of a racehorse trainer.

During one of the races that Shea attended, Julien fell off and broke his hand.

Later that week, Shea tweeted at Julien a simple "I hope you're ok".

Not long after, they got married.

In 2012, Leparoux decided to switch from the Kentucky circuit (Churchill Downs, Keeneland and Turfway Park) to New York, then moved to California to be closer to his then-fiancée's family.

Leparoux had one of his best chances to win the Kentucky Derby in 2012 with the talented colt Union Rags but could only finish seventh after a troubled trip.

Leparoux told the horse's trainer that he had heard a pop (indicative of a possible injury) with three-eighths of a mile remaining in the race, but no problem was found the day after.

The trainer called the race a disaster and replaced Leparoux for the Belmont Stakes with John Velazquez.

Union Rags won the Belmont but never raced again due to an injury to his suspensory ligament.

2013

At the end of 2013, now married, he moved back to Kentucky.

"I wanted to come back here for my career, the same routine I was used to," explained Leparoux.

"I'm still young where I want to be at the top and ride a lot of races and try to win as much as I can... And we want to start a family, and I think Kentucky is a great place. It requires a lot of moving around for a family, but a lot of jockeys do it."

2015

He has won seven Breeders' Cup races, including the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile with Champion Turf Mare Tepin and the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile with Classic Empire.

Leparoux grew up in a racing family, the son of Robert Leparoux, a jockey turned assistant trainer.

On September 24, 2015, their first son, Mitchell Leparoux, was born.

At only 4 days old, Mitchell was out at Keeneland watching his dad warm up horses in the early morning and racing during the day!

2016

The highlights of 2016 included several notable wins on Tepin, including the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.