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Pat Day
Patrick Alan "Pat" Day, born in Colorado, is a four-time winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1991. Day also received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1985, given annually to a North American jockey who demonstrates the highest standards of professional and personal conduct. In 1995, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship".
Day has ridden winners of U.S. Triple Crown races nine times and is the only jockey to have ridden at least one mount in each of the first 20 Breeders’ Cups, and ranks second all-time in Breeders' Cup winners, with 12. Day is also the all-time leading rider at Churchill Downs and Keeneland, the two largest tracks in his adopted home state of Kentucky. At the Downs, Day was often so dominant that veteran horseplayers would complain — bettors would often wager so much money on horses with Day in the saddle that the payoff odds would decline. In 1989 he set a North American record when he won eight of nine mounts in a single day at Arlington Park.
After undergoing hip surgery that forced him to miss the Derby for the first time in 21 years, Day announced his retirement on August 3, 2005 after a 32-year career that saw him ride 8,804 winners, fourth on the all-time list, and set a North American record for prize money won, with his mounts earning nearly $298 million. He said he would retire and commit the rest of his life purely to spreading the Gospel. Day and his family reside in Crestwood, a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky.

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