He's won the last three riding titles in California.

He has won a record seven riding titles at Fair Grounds.

At the same racetrack, he won four straight riding titles between 2000 and 2003 before breaking a leg in 2004.

That same year he won the first of his two Gulfstream Park riding titles.

He took his first national steeplechase riding title in 1961, adding two more in 1963 and 1964.

He also captured the 2005 riding title at Churchill Downs.

At the start of the meeting, Bailey was expected to win his fourth straight riding title and his eighth in the past nine years.

He can become the first rider not named Bailey to win the Saratoga riding title since 1998.

But Elliott is far from a certainty to win the Monmouth riding title.

He won his seventh Saratoga riding title in eight years with a record 55 victories, 12 of them stakes triumphs.