the Associated Press, stated that he had the unique distinction of having led the standings at every single meet he had ridden at for the previous ten years. He won riding championships at Rockingham Park, Atlantic City Race Course, Garden State Park and Monmouth Park. He rode for many of the days prominent trainers, including Hirsch Jacobs and Moody Jolley, and large stables such as Brookemeade (Isabel Dodge Sloane), Wheatley (The Phipps family) and Cain Hoy (Harry Guggenheim). He set a course record at Jamaica Race Course on Sheilas Reward, the American Champion Sprint Horse of 1950 and 1951. At the end of the 1951 racing season, and with over two–thousand winners to his name, only five other jockeys had won more races than Fernando Fernandez. He had won the Cuban and Mexican Derbies, the Sapling and numerous other stakes. He rode Jampol to a second-place finish in the 1952 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. In the summer of 1953 Fernando Fernandez retired with more than 2500 winners, and seventh on the list of racing's all-time leaders, which included Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Ted Atkinson, James Stout, Jack Westrope and John H. Adams, all future members of the National Racing Hall of Fame. He was one of the first five inducted into the Oriental Park Hall of Fame, honoring Cuban horsemen at Calder Racecourse in 1979, along with Avelino Gomez and Lazaro Barrera. Camilo Marin told the Daily Racing Form that in the 18 years he represented Fernandez, the rider was never once suspended for riding carelessly by track stewards, and that he had been a gentleman both on and off the track. Fernando Fernandez died on November 30, 1988, in Miami, Florida, coincidentally only several hours before the death of his longtime agent, Camilo Marin, in California. Selected Stake Races Won 1952 New Jersey Futurity (Mon) High Hatter 1952 Benjamin Franklin Stakes (GS) Armageddon 1950 All American Handicap (Atl) Dart By 1949 Commonwealth Handicap (Suf) Mesmer 1949 Cuban Derby (OP) Mi Preferido 1951 Mexican Derby (HdLA) Jabato 1950 Fort Lauderdale Purse Sallequilo (ARG) 1950 Fleetwing Handicap (Emp) Sheila's Reward 1948 Lowell Handicap (Rkm) Agrarian-U 1947 Narragansett Nursery Stakes (NP) Tally 1947 General Greene Handicap (RkP) Agrarian-U 1951 Gran Premio Nacional (HdLA) Jabato 1950 Select Handicap (Mon) Sheila's Reward 1951 Select Handicap (Mon) Northern Star 1941 S.S. Washington Handicap (Ori) Juanita 1941 Miramar Yacht Club Handicap (Ori) Juanita 1952 Mermaid Handicap