Crowning Achievement

Winner, Winner, steak dinner!

With a win at the Belmont, Jeff Ruby has won the Triple Crown for the second time.

Javier Castellano won aboard Arcangelo in the Belmont Stakes. Castellano also won the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby aboard Mage and has been sponsored by Jeff Ruby for five years. Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez rode National Treasure to a Preakness Stakes win.

The winners of each of 2023 Triple Crown races was a Jeff Ruby-sponsored jockey.

Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment sponsored six of the nine jockeys in the 155th edition of New York’s Belmont Stakes. In addition to Castellano, the jockeys included Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Forte, who finished in second place, along with John Velazquez, Jose Ortiz, Manny Franco and Flavien Pratt.

Jeff Ruby has built meaningful relationships with these jockeys that go back several years and is overjoyed for them and their triumphant efforts during the Triple Crown racing season.

Ruby has been a long-time sponsor of the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (www.PDJF.com), which supports jockeys who have sustained serious injuries. Because of this support, several active jockeys offered to wear the Jeff Ruby brand during the Triple Crown races: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.