Fernando Jara is a Panamanian jockey. In 2006, at the age of 18, he rode Jazil to a fourth place finish in the Kentucky Derby, he was able to capture the final leg of the Triple Crown with a victory in the Belmont Stakes. Jara had become a well-established jockey in Panama at the age of 15, and only recently came to the United States to pursue his career because of a jockey age limit in the U.S. Toulouse-Lautrec - The Jockey (1899) This article is about the sports occupation. ... Jazil is a thoroughbred horse. ... Churchill Downs racetrack, 2004 The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the three-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ... The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious horse race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ...