Goncalino Almeida

Jockey, Person

1956 –

67

Who is Goncalino Almeida?

Gonçalino Feijó de Almeida is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. A riding champion in his native Brazil, he has been racing in the United States since 1990. Based in California, he makes his home in Arcadia bear the Santa Anita Park racetrack.

Almeida has won a number of important Graded stakes races in California and at the Fair Grounds Race Course in Louisiana. He has ridden in two Kentucky Derbys with his best result a fourth aboard Jumron in the 1995 running won by Thunder Gulch.

His son, Goncalino, Jr. is a natural science major and star athlete in cross country running at Loyola Marymount University.

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Born
Jan 28, 1956
Rio de Janeiro
Nationality
  • United States of America
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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