Turfway Park will honor legendary jockey Perry Ouzts on Saturday, Dec. 6 with a dedication ceremony officially renaming the facility’s jockey quarters the Perry Wayne Ouzts Jockeys’ Quarters.

Ouzts, 71, has won 7,531 races in his career, ranking fifth all-time among North American jockeys behind Russell Baze (12,842), Laffit Pincay Jr. (9,530), Bill Shoemaker (8,833) and Pat Day (8,803). He also ranks seventh in the world in career victories and has ridden in a record 53,689 races. Ouzts is the all-time leading rider at Turfway Park and has won thousands of races in the Northern Kentucky/Ohio area.

“Perry is a terrific human and an unbelievable professional athlete,” Turfway Park general manager Chip Bach said. “He’s the ultimate iron man, and it’s only fitting that the place where our r

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