Gary Stevens (jockey)

Gary L. Stevens
Gary Stevens at the 2013 Preakness Stakes
Occupation	Jockey
Born	(1963-03-06) March 6, 1963 (age 53) Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.
Career wins	5,025+ North America, ongoing 5,100+ worldwide, incl.: 55 FR, 50 UK, 20 HK 10 Dubai, 3 JAP, 1 IRE
Major racing wins
American Classic Race wins: Kentucky Derby 1988 1995 1997 Preakness Stakes 1997 2001 2013 Belmont Stakes 1995 1998 2001 Kentucky Oaks 1986 1999 Breeders' Cup wins Breeders' Cup Turf (1990) Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1993, 1999) Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (1998) Breeders' Cup Mile (1996, 2000) Breeders' Cup Distaff (1994, 1998, 2013, 2016) Breeders' Cup Classic (2013) Grade I stakes wins Santa Anita Derby 1988 1990 1993–1995 1998–1999 2001 2003 Santa Anita Handicap 1990 1991 1995 2005 Santa Anita Oaks 2014 1990 1989 1988 1987 Arlington Million 1990 1997 Pacific Classic Stakes 1993 1997 2015 Del Mar Debutante Stakes 1987 1998 1992 2002 2013 Eddie Read Handicap 1985 1995 La Brea Stakes 1987 1990 1995 1998 2013 Jockey Club Gold Cup 1992 Wood Memorial Stakes 1994 Travers Stakes 1995 2001 Los Alamitos Futurity/Hollywood Futurity 2000, 2015 2000, 2015 Vanity Invitational Handicap 1995 2001 2013 2016 Las Virgenes Stakes 1987 1992 1993 2014 San Marcos Stakes 1993 2002 2004 2013 Santa Maria Handicap 1988 1996 2001 2002 2013 Awesome Again Stakes 1988 1994 1998 2005 2013 John Henry Turf Championship Stakes 1988 2003 2013 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes 1993 2015 Gamely Stakes 1992 1997 2013 Haskell Invitational Stakes 1995 2001 Zenyatta Stakes 1995 2013 Malibu Stakes 1992 2004 2015 Major international race wins Japan Cup 1991 Canadian International Stakes 1996 1998 Hardwicke Stakes 1997 Dubai World Cup 1998 International Stakes 1999 Duke of Edinburgh Stakes 1999 Great Voltigeur Stakes 1999 Dubai Sheema Classic 2004 Prix Maurice de Gheest 2004
Racing awards
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1996) Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey (1998) Mike Venezia Memorial Award (1999) Big Sport of Turfdom Award (2013)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1997)
Significant horses
Da Hoss Winning Colors Thunder Gulch Singspiel Silver Charm Victory Gallop Bertrando Silverbulletday Point Given Royal Anthem Fantastic Light Rock Hard Ten Serena's Song Commentator Oxbow Beholder Mucho Macho Man

American Classic Race wins:

Breeders' Cup wins

Gary Lynn Stevens (born March 6, 1963) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, actor, and sports analyst. He became a professional jockey in 1979 and rode his first of three Kentucky Derby winners in 1988. As of 2014^[update], he has also won the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes three times each, as well as 10 Breeders' Cup races and is a nine-time winner of the Santa Anita Derby. He entered the United States Racing Hall of Fame in 1997. Combining his U.S. and international wins, Stevens had over 5,000 race wins by 2005, and reached his 5,000 North American win on February 15, 2015.

His career successes were intertwined with significant injuries and periods of temporary retirement due to knee problems from 1999 until 2000, and again from 2005 to 2013. He had an acting role in the 2003 film Seabiscuit. After his second retirement from riding in 2005, he worked for TVG and then HRTV and NBC Sports as a horse racing analyst for seven years, had a brief stint as a race horse trainer, and took a few other acting roles, notably in the TV series Luck, before coming out of retirement again in 2013. In the 2013 season, he won 69 of 383 races and finished the year 12th in the nation in purse earnings, winning a number of significant races including the 2013 Preakness Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Distaff and the Breeders' Cup Classic. In 2014, he rode in the first half of the year, but his knee problems became too severe to continue riding, and in July he announced a "break" in order to get a total knee replacement. He returned to riding by mid-October 2014, accepted mounts for the 2014 Breeders' Cup, and rode a winning race by mid-November 2014.