David Flores to retire

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http://www.drf.com/news/flores-retir...become-trainer

Not a lot of fan fare for this journeyman but from personal experience he was always great to be around.

On the track he really was a great speed rider and wont forget hitting with him in the 1991 Hollywod Gold Cup on a really underrated horse named Marquetry.

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From DRF....

Del Mar race 2: final ride for 3,600-race winner David Flores (FREE)
Jockey David Flores, winner of more than 3,600 races including the Kentucky Oaks and Pacific Classic and a three-time winner of the Del Mar Futurity, makes the final ride of his career today in race 2 aboard Red Livy.

Flores, 49, has been in the process of setting up a pinhooking operation in Ocala, where he will relocate.

Flores first came onto this circuit in the late 1980s when the jockey colony was the absolute best, with Laffit Pincay Jr., Bill Shoemaker, Eddie Delahoussaye, Chris McCarron, Gary Stevens, and Patrick Valenzuela among those in the room. He more than held his own for a quarter century, with Hall of Fame trainers like Bobby Frankel, for whom he won the Kentucky Oaks, and Bob Baffert, for whom he won three Del Mar Futurities and the Pacific Classic, among his biggest boosters.

He has always conducted himself with the utmost integrity, is highly popular among his peers, and has quietly supported charities in his native Tijuana for decades. One can only wish him the best as he moves on to the next stage of his career.