American Classic Race & Breeders' Cup wins:
Belmont Stakes (2007, 2012)
Breeders' Cup Mile (1998, 2012)
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (2000, 2002)
Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (2002, 2011)
Breeders' Cup Distaff (2004)
Breeders' Cup Sprint (2004)
Breeders' Cup Juvenile (2010)
Breeders' Cup Marathon (2010)
Kentucky Derby (2011)
Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (2011)

International race wins:
Woodbine Mile (2000, 2005, 2012, 2013)
E. P. Taylor Stakes (2004, 2005)
Dubai World Cup (2005)
Queen Mary Stakes (2009)
Windsor Castle Stakes (2009) Racing awards United States Champion Jockey by earnings
(2004, 2005)
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey
(2004, 2005)
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (2009) Honours National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (2011) Significant horses Da Hoss, Storm Flag Flying, Lemon Drop Kid, Ashado, Kitten's Joy, Flower Alley, Lawyer Ron, Roses in May, Bluegrass Cat, Circular Quay, Scat Daddy, Rags to Riches, Commentator, Indian Blessing, Uncle Mo, Animal Kingdom, Wise Dan

John R. Velazquez (born November 24, 1971, in Carolina, Puerto Rico) is a jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. Admitted to the Horse Racing Hall of fame in 2012, as of 2014, he is the all-time leading money-earning jockey in North America.

He learned to ride in his native Puerto Rico. On January 3, 1990, he won his first race, aboard Rodas at El Nuevo Comandante racetrack in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. That same year, under the guidance of agent and former jockey, Angel Cordero, Jr., he moved to New York State where he has earned 24 riding titles at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course.

A winner of multiple Breeders' Cup races, he has also won graded stakes races such as the Kentucky Oaks, Blue Grass Stakes, Dubai World Cup, E. P. Taylor Stakes (twice), Whitney Handicap, Woodbine Mile, plus the Cigar Mile Handicap. To date in his career, John Velazquez has ridden more than 5,000 winners. In 2004 and 2005 he was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings and was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 2004 and 2005.

In 2004, he won the Bill Shoemaker Award for top Breeders' Cup performance by a jockey, winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff with Ashado and the Breeders' Cup Sprint with Speightstown.

Velazquez set a Saratoga record with six wins in one card on September 3, 2001.

In 2006, he was elected to the Puerto Rico Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

In 2009, Velazquez, known at tracks as "Johnny V," was awarded the Santa Anita George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. That same year, he led Quality Road to a win at the Florida Derby, knocking off the previously unbeaten Dunkirk in the process. Ironically, he rode Dunkirk to his second-place finish in the Grade l Belmont Stakes.

In October 13, 2013, Velazquez became the all-time leading money winner among North American jockeys, surpassing Pat Day in the ninth race at Belmont, aboard the filly Bit Bustin. After that race, his earnings reached $297,922,320 in career purses. The next year, Velazquez became the all-time leading money winner in the history of jockeying and the first whose earnings surpass $300 million.