Career
He began his career riding at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba and in 1987 started competing at tracks in Ontario, moving to Toronto permanently in 1991. In the 1997 Breeders" Cup Juvenile at Hollywood Park Racetrack, Kabel rode 78-1 long shot Dawson"s Legacy to a second-place finish behind 1997"s American Horse of the Year, Favorite Trick. In 2003 he became the first Canadian-based jockey to earn more than $10 million in purses, and in 2004 he tied the record of 36 graded stakes race wins in a season set by the late Hall of Fame jockey, Avelino Gomez.
Among Kabel"s major wins he rode Regal Discovery to victory in the 1995 Queen"s Plate, the country"s most prestigious race and that was his big break.
However, Kabel and Scatter The Gold missed winning the Canadian Triple Crown when they finished third in the Breeders" Stakes on turf. Todd Kabel continues to race and currently has more than 3,200 career wins.