Fernando Toro (born January 31, 1941, in Santiago, Chile) is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey about whom Santa Anita Park called one of Southern California's most successful jockeys in the 1970s and '80s. Widely respected for his expertise on the turf, among his many successes Fernando Toro rode the filly Royal Heroine to victory in the 1984 inaugural running of the Breeders' Cup Mile.