Report: Jockey Robby Albarado will retire, final mount Saturday

Jockey Robby Albarado is retiring after a 31-year career that brought three Breeders' Cup wins and $221.6 million in earnings.

The Daily Racing Form reported that Alabarado will have his final mount Saturday in the seventh race at Turfway Park. He will be aboard Big Bugg's Girl for trainer Ben Colebrook.

"It's time," the 48-year-old Albarado told DRF.

Heading into this week's action, Albarado has 5,222 wins from 34,113 starts. His record this year is 93: 2-8-15, with about $636,000 in earnings.

Albarado began riding in 1990 and had his top earnings year in 2007, with $19.4 million. That also was the year he rode Curlin to victories in the Breeders' Cup Classic and the Preakness Stakes, as well as a third-place finish in the Kentucky Derby and a runner-up effort in the Belmont Stakes.

His other Breeders' Cup wins came aboard Tapitsfly in the 2009 Juvenile Fillies Turf and Court Vision in the 2011 Mile.

Albarado's biggest win in more recent years came with the filly Swiss Skydiver in last year's Preakness.

Albarado's reputation – and earnings - were hurt by two arrests for domestic violence, once in 2011 and once in 2012. In one case, the charges were dropped, and in the other, his conviction of fourth-degree assault was overturned on appeal.