Richard Migliore

Migliore joined the XBTV team in 2017 and presently works as an East Coast analyst, providing handicapping insight and interviews.

On May 4, 2010, he underwent an operation in which two plates and 8 screws were inserted into his neck due to a fall from his mount, Honest Wildcat, at Aqueduct on January 23, 2010. During a press conference held at Belmont Racetrack before the draw for the Belmont Stakes in June, Migliore announced his retirement. He won 4,450 races, including 362 stakes and 25 Grade 1 events.

In late 2010, shortly after retiring from the saddle, Migliore joined HRTV as an analyst where he appears on number of shows, including "Pursuit of the Cup" and "Pursuit of the Crown". He contributed reports from the Breeders' Cup, and the Triple Crown races. In 2014, Migliore joined Fox Sports 1 The Jockey Club Tour on FOX racing series as the racing analyst before moving on to the New York Racing Association, serving as broadcast analyst and racing office associate.

On October 25, 2008, at Santa Anita Park, Migliore won his first Breeders' Cup race, the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Desert Code.

In 2005, he won the Aqueduct Racetrack spring meet. His 4,000th career win occurred on February 4, 2005. He won twice that day, once on Hurricane Erica and the second time on Benjamin Baby. Migliore became the 18th active jockey to reach that milestone and the 43rd in U.S. history to win that many races. In October 2006, Migliore announced his move to the California tracks after a career spent on the East Coast. On November 15, he rode his first mount at Hollywood Park Racetrack. On February 23, 2008, Migliore won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. In the summer of 2008, Migliore announced he would be returning to the East Coast for the Saratoga meet. At the end of the Saratoga meet, Migliore relocated to New York.

On May 30, 1988, Migliore suffered a near-fatal neck injury when he was thrown from Madam Alydar at Belmont Park. The accident was featured on the television series Rescue 911 in 1992. In July 1999, he seriously fractured his right arm in another spill at Belmont and was out of the races for six months.

Migliore was the recipient of the Eddie Arcaro Award from the New York Turf Writers Association as outstanding jockey in 1981 and 1985. He won the 2003 Mike Venezia Memorial Award from the New York Racing Association for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship." Also that year, Migliore was honored at the 2003 Thurman Munson Awards Dinner by the Association for the Help of Retarded Children. In 2005, he again won the New York Thoroughbred Association Jockey of the Year title, riding the New York-bred winners of 58 races and winning $2,246,398.

His first mount was on September 29, 1980, and his first win was less than a month later aboard Good Grip at Meadowlands Racetrack. In 1981, Migliore won the Eclipse Award as the leading apprentice jockey at the age of 17.

Richard Migliore (born March 14, 1964 in Babylon, New York) is a retired American jockey. He now works as a racing analyst for XBTV. He was nicknamed "The Mig," which is a type of Russian fighter jet, for his tenacious style of riding. He lives with his wife, Carmela, and children in Millbrook, New York.