Join legendary Northern California rider Russell Baze as he discusses his remarkable career and his current quest to become Thoroughbred racing’s all-time leader in career wins by a jockey. Baze will be the next guest during a special Tuesday edition of Bloodhorse.com’s “Talkin’ Horses” from noon to 1 p.m. ET Tuesday, Nov. 28; online at https://www.bloodhorse.com/talkinhorses.

A native of Vancouver and a member of the Racing Hall of Fame since 1999, Baze has won 29 riding titles at Golden Gate Fields and 36 riding titles at Bay Meadows, he has been the winningest jockey in North America eight times, he’s a 10-time winner of the National Turf Writers Association’s Isaac Murphy Award recognizing the rider with the highest percentage of winners from mounts, won the 2002 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, and he received a special 1995 Eclipse Award as the first jockey ever to win 400+ races four years in a row–a feat he has repeated in 11 of the past 14 years.

Baze is the second-winningest rider in Thoroughbred racing history with 9,519 victories (through Nov. 19, 2006). Laffit Pincay, Jr., who retired in 2003, is racing’s all-time leader with 9,530 wins. He passed the legendary Bill Shoemaker and moved into second place on the all-time win list for jockeys when he notched his 8,834th career win aboard Hollow Memories in the seventh race at Golden Gate Fields on Jan. 22, 2005. He is the son of Joe Baze, who won riding championships at Bay Meadows, Golden Gate Fields, and Longacres. He and his wife, Tami, have three daughters, Trinity, Brandi, and Cassie, and one son, Gable