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Pat Day |
| Riding Career: | 1973-2005 |
| Number of Mounts: | 40,298 |
| Number of Winners: | 8,803 |
| Winning Percentage: | 21.8% |
Pat Day grew up in a small Colorado town where he dreamed of someday becoming a rodeo cowboy. His dream of making a living riding horses came true, but not as he might have expected. Day had his first winner in 1973 at Prescott Downs in Arizona. He was destined to become one of America's most successful Thoroughbred jockeys. Based in Arkansas, Day spends most of his time riding in Kentucky and his home state but travels the country to ride in major races. He once rode eight winners in an afternoon at Arlington and is particularly well known for his Breeders' Cup performances. He has won more Breeders' Cup races (eleven) than any other rider.
Pat Day takes Lady's Secret to victory in the Breeders' Cup Distaff
©Santa Anita Photo
Pat Day's most important mounts have included Breeders' Cup winners Unbridled, Wild Again, Flanders and Lady's Secret, Belmont Stakes winner Easy Goer, and Preakness winners Summer Squall, Tank's Prospect, and Louis Quatorze. He also won the Kentucky Derby on Lil E. Tee.
| Awards and Achievements George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, 1985
Eclipse Award as Outstanding Jockey in 1984, 86, 87, 91
Nation's winningest jockey in 1982-1984, 86, 90-91
Set a record for most stakes won in a single season, 1991
Canadian Triple Crown winner on Dance Smartly, 1991
Mike Venezia Award, 1995
Inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1991 |
Pat Day retired from riding in 2005.
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