She suffered a leg injury while competing in what would be her last race on New Year's Day. You got to move on. You got to keep going. It was really tough to handle. It was tough.'' With his attitude toward riding starting to sour, Anderson started thinking about becoming an agent.
Agents line up mounts for their riders.
I knew right away I wanted to do it. He won an Eclipse Award as the leading apprentice jockey in the nation while competing on the east coast in 1995. While splitting his time between day cards at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York and night programs at The Meadowlands in New Jersey, Perez won 153 races in his first year of riding. Anything that Bill Mott shipped to Tampa or Minnesota this kid rode without a question. He didn't bring over his own rider.