NEWS
Canadian jockey Landry scores 2,000th win
Posted: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:27 PM
On Canada Day, Toronto native Robert Landry scored his 2,000th career win when he rode Firetheexecutive to victory in the ninth race on Wednesday at Woodbine.
The three-year-old Bold Executive gelding drove to a two-length score in the seven-furlong race on the synthetic Polytrack surface to give Landry the landmark victory.
“I treated it as though it were any other day,” Landry said. “It’s really nice to win this. My mindset was, ‘When it comes, it comes.’ I’m happy I won it for [owner-trainer] Steve [Attard]. I’ve ridden a lot for him in the past. Now that it’s over with, we’ll go out there and try to get some more.”
Landry, a two-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s outstanding jockey, started riding professionally in 1981 and has won 160 stakes, including 25 graded stakes races. Landry’s biggest wins include the 2004 Queen’s Plate Stakes with Niigon, the ’03 Selene Stakes (Can-G1) and Labatt Woodbine Oaks with Too Late Now, and the 1999 Atto Mile Stakes (Can-G1) with Quiet Resolve.
In addition to race riding, Landry serves as a board member for the LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society and donates his time to several children’s charities.
