Julien Leparoux
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Julien R. Leparoux is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States. He has won seven Breeders' Cup races, including the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile with Champion Turf Mare T
Leparoux on Tepin in 2016
Julien Leparoux at the 2009 Breeders' Cup
Leparoux on Classic Empire (left) in the 2017 Preakness Stakes
Classic Empire
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Classic Empire is a retired American Thoroughbred race horse who was named the American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse of 2016 after winning the Breeders' Futurity Stakes and Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Julien Leparoux
…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. In 2026 Leparoux was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. A national honour, it has been presented annually since 1950 by Santa…
Classic Empire before the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile
Classic Empire wearing blinkers for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile