Pat Day
A favorite fixture on the
Midwest circuit, particularly Churchill Downs,
Racing Hall of Fame Pat Day has been winning races
since July, 1973, when he won his first at Prescott
Downs in Arizona. The Colorado native has since
won the Eclipse Award four times as North America's
outstanding jockey, and in the summer of 1997
became only the fourth rider in history to notch
7,000 career victories.
He has piloted numerous
champions and/or classic winners, including Easy
Goer, Lady's Secret, Unbridled, Summer Squall, Tabasco
Cat, Paradise Creek, Turkoman, and Timber County.
Among the nation's leading riders since 1982, Day
captured the inaugural Breeders' Cup Classic in
1984 aboard Wild Again and won the past two renewals
of the race with Awesome Again and Cat Thief. His
Triple Crown record is equally as impressive; Day
has finished first or second with 18 of his 45 classic
mounts. |
