Emerald Downs’ leading rider Leslie Mawing Among 2015 George Woolf Finalists

Published 8:35 pm Friday, November 28, 2014

2014 Emerald Downs leading rider Leslie Mawing is among the six finalists for the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, which will be decided in February 2015 and presented later that spring at Santa Anita Park.

In addition to Mawing, also nominated are James Graham, an Irish native who has won two riding titles at Arlington Park; Mike Luzzi, who was the nation’s Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey in 1988; Cory Nakatani, who has won ten Breeders’ Cup World Championship races; and the recently retired Rosie Napravnik, who has won two Kentucky Oaks (G1) in addition to her two Breeders’ Cup tallies, the most recent of which came with probable 2014 sophomore filly champion Untapable this year.