Huber Villa-Gomez was born on January 28, 1978, and began riding at in his native Peru after he gained an interest in horses through a cousin who worked at a racetrack. “The first day I went to the track, that’s when I knew I wanted to ride,” says Villa-Gomez. At age eighteen he attended jockey school in Peru, and won his first race there on a horse named Victorio.
The jockey says that Floater, a horse he rode to several stakes victories in Ohio, is his favorite mount. In the 2006-2007 Tampa Bay Downs meet, Huber Villa-Gomez guided 42 mounts to the winner’s circle for seventh place in the final rider standings. When he’s not in the irons, Huber Villa-Gomez likes to spend time with his girlfriend Tracy. He also enjoys playing with his two children, Maximo, 3 ½; and Abigail, 2. Huber Villa-Gomez finished the 2006-2007 Tampa Bay Downs season as seventh leading rider with 126 in-the-money finishes from 274 starts.
After the Tampa meet, Villa-Gomez finished 19th in the standings at Presque Isle Downs with 2 wins and $64,980 in earnings; at Mountaineer Park, Villa-Gomez is ranked eighth leading reinsman with ten wins and $137,053 in purses though October 28, 2007.