Tony Piccone | |
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Born | 1987 |
Nationality | French |
Tony Piccone (born 21 July 1987 in Marseille [1] ) is a French flat racing jockey. A son of a jockey, he joined an apprentice jockey school in Marseille aged 14 and apprenticed for trainer Cédric Boutin three years later. [2] He has since been a freelance jockey and gets called up on British-trained horses which race in France. He was riding in Hong Kong in January and February 2020 and then again from October 2020 to November 2021. [3] In 2019, he won the group two Qatar Derby aboard Pedro Cara.
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