# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-espinoza
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:41:14.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-espinoza"
name: "Victor Espinoza"
slug: "victor-espinoza"
description: "Victor Espinoza is a Mexican jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who won the Triple Crown in 2015 on American Pharoah. He began riding in his native Mexico and went on to compete at racetracks in California. He has won the Kentucky Derby three times, riding War Emblem in 2002, California Chrome in 2014, and American Pharoah in 2015. He also won the Preakness Stakes three times, in those same years and with the same horses. He was the first jockey in history to enter the Belmont Stakes with a third opportunity to win the Triple Crown; his 2015 victory made him the oldest jockey and first Hispanic jockey to accomplish the feat. He joined Ron Turcotte as the only jockeys to win five of the six jewels of the Triple Crown spread over two consecutive years."
tagline: "Mexican jockey"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Espinoza.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.78
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.436221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/EspinozasVictor"
    handle:    "EspinozasVictor"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6497887/"
    handle:    "nm6497887"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.victorespinoza.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Espinoza"
    title: "Victor Espinoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7"
    title: "فكتور إسبينوزا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Espinoza"
    title: "Victor Espinoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Espinoza_(jinete)"
    title: "Víctor Espinoza (jinete)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Espinoza"
    title: "Victor Espinoza"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%94%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6"
    title: "ビクター・エスピノーザ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7925891"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4243909"
    title: "Victor Espinoza"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump