Q&A with Eurico Rosa Da Silva

You may have seen him ride the winner of the odd race or two at Woodbine (tongue in cheek) and you have certainly heard him shout ‘Good luck to everybody.’ Eurico Rosa Da Silva gets candid with Canadian Thoroughbred about his whirlwind 2018 season, his love for horses (including a very special one), his routines and more. Happy New Year Eurico and what a year you had in the saddle. You won 237 races in 127 days of racing at Woodbine in 2018, the most any jockey has won at a Woodbine meeting. On Dec. 1, aboard a little filly named Souciologist, you broke Mickey Walls’ record of 221 wins in one meeting set in 1991. When did you think you had a chance at breaking that record? “When I first won 200 races (2015) at Woodbine, I knew I had set up a challenge for myself. You know, when…