Who is Oliver Castillo and why is he our...
 

... representative in the International Jockey Challenge in Korea?

Okay I know who Scott Seamer is (rode Ethereal in the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups), Shu Ishibashi (two nice wins this year that I know of.... Dairy Stakes and Arlington with Cosmos Sensor and Nemo Shin), and Niall McCullagh (Ireland / India).

The three names I'm not familiar with are Mazi Yeni (South Africa), Akin Sozen (Turkey) and ummm Americas Oliver Castillo (?).

Someone want to enlighten me?

Thanks!

He's been around for a while and for now usually rides at the mid-atlantic tracks like Delaware, Philly, Penn and Maryland etc. As for why he is representing the U.S. in the jockey challenge maybe someone else can help answer that.

Rudy Rodriguez in now training.

Maybe the competition took place in North Korea.

I believe he appears in running lines in the form as OO Castillo.

He does appear as OO Castillo.

He rode a couple of seasons in Tampa, used to ride first call for Michael Zwiesler on the Will Farish third stringers. I don't recall him riding at Tampa last season.

He's clearly no CPF

Thanks for the info, guys.



:D

Epilogue...

Korea wins the challenge.

Excerpt, Horse Racing in Korea...

It had started off badly with chaos at the starting gate delaying races 1 & 2. Then in race 3, one jockey got thrown off and another horse opted to remain in the stalls until his compatriots had completed half the race.


However, that was just a build up to race 4, the pièce de résistance, when with the horses at the start and around $10 Million in the various pools, the tote board failed. Completely. Race 4 was abandoned and and all money returned. If it could fail once, it could fail again – and it did, just prior to race 5.Somehow, though they managed to get it working again and whatever sticking plaster they applied (or they switched it off and switched it back on again), saw us through to the end of the evening.

http://korearacing.wordpress.com/

Oliver Castillo is Carlos Castaneda's yuk 'em buddy.