Talk:John R. Velazquez

Article improvement

Hey, nice work on improving this article. It occurred to me that in the "injury laundry list" we probably need to mention 2013 when he lost his spleen following the spill at the Breeders' Cup. Montanabw^(talk) 22:37, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

I mean to do an overhaul with some detail on early year. Keeneland usually has a good bio. Tighten the major wins in the info box to mostly G1s - he's got enough of those, no need for the more minor ones. Thank goodness for Equibase. Problem with someone like Johnie V is there is so much out there that its hard to find what you really want. Jlvsclrk (talk) 22:47, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned references in John R. Velazquez

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of John R. Velazquez's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "EquibaseProfile":

• From King's Bishop Stakes: "King's Bishop Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
• From Secretariat Stakes: "Secretariat Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
• From Perfect Shirl: "Perfect Shirl Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
• From Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap: "Sword Dancer Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
• From Adirondack Stakes: "Adirondack Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
• From Fourstardave Handicap: "Fourstardave Statistics". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
• From Haskell Invitational Stakes: "Graded Stakes Profile - Haskell Invitational". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
• From Saratoga Special Stakes: "Saratoga Special Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 14 August 2016.
• From Speightstown (horse): "Statistics – Speightstown". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
• From Afleet Alex: "Afleet Alex Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• From Storm Flag Flying: "Storm Flag Flying Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
• From Personal Ensign Stakes: "Personal Ensign Stakes Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
• From Scat Daddy: "Equibase Profile - Scat Daddy". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
• From Bluegrass Cat: "Bluegrass Cat Profile". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
• From Whitney Handicap: "Grades Stakes Profile - Whitney Handicap". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
• From Indian Blessing: "Indian Blessing statistics". www.equibase.com. Retrieved 28 August 2016.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 07:22, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

• They are all intended to be from the cited sources. If the problem is all are named the same, I will tweak. Montanabw^(talk) 19:47, 5 September 2016 (UTC) Follow up: None of these are named "equibase profile," each is for a separate horse. That said, we may want to add a "title=" parameter to clarify and fix the "Website" parameter to the name and not the URL. Montanabw^(talk) 19:48, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Puerto Rican?

Is there some MOS reason we're calling him 'a Puerto Rican jockey' in the lead? Shouldn't we just be calling him American? —valereee (talk) 10:13, 23 July 2021 (UTC)