Rodney Jenkins

Birth Date: July 03, 1944
Birth Place: Middleburg, Virginia

STATISTICS: STARTS 1st 2nd 3rd MONEY
2011 227 61 36 32 $1,523,228
CAREER 3,351 722 579 504 $17,133,441

2011 SEASON: ranked 14th in Maryland with 25 wins…won three stakes: Bandbox (Private Terms), Love’s Blush (Maryland Million Ladies) and Plum (Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: ranked in the top 20 in the Maryland standings since 2000…captured 2002 Laurel summer meet title…named outstanding trainer by MTHA in 2003…saddled three winners four times during career…conditioned Willa On The Move, who finished second in the Grade III Miss Preakness and Grade II Acorn at Belmont Park, in 2001 and 2002…trained multiple stakes winners Outstander and Mt. Carson…Chasin Tiger won five races in the state during the 2007 campaign…first winner was Wolftalk on August 2, 1998 at Laurel Park…during a 24-hour period from Nov. 11-12, 2009 won six races, including four at Laurel Park.

PERSONAL: dominated the American show ring in the 1960s, '70s and through most of the '80s, and retired as the sports winningest rider...inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1999, and the roster of fine horses ridden by Jenkins reads like a Hall of Fame entry in itself, topped by one of the greatest -- Idle Dice…won more than 70 grand prix classes, rode on ten winning Nations Cup teams between 1973 and 1987, earned two silver medals in the 1987 Pan American Games as a member of the US Equestrian Team.