The Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey is an American

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honor for

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s first awarded in 1971. Part of the

Eclipse Award The Eclipse Award is an American Thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th-century British racehorse and sire, Eclipse. An Eclipse Award Trophy is presented to the winner in each division. The trophy is made by a few small selected A ...

s program, it is awarded annually. Panamanian jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. won the inaugural award in 1971 and was the first jockey to win consecutively (1973 and 1974). His subsequent wins in 1979 and 1985 brought his total wins to five, a number only surpassed by American jockey

Jerry Bailey Jerry D. Bailey (born August 29, 1957) is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey and current NBC Sports thoroughbred racing analyst. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys of all time. Early years Bailey was born in Dallas, Texas bu ...

, who holds the record with seven. Bailey won his first three consecutively from 1995 to 1997, before winning another four consecutively from 2000 to 2003. His latter four consecutive wins are a record, only matched by Venezuelan jockey

Javier Castellano Javier Castellano (born October 23, 1977) is a Venezuelan jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. Castellano won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey four times in a row from 2013 to 2016. In 2023 he won two legs of the American Tripl ...

's four wins from 2013 to 2016. The most recent winner, Irad Ortiz Jr. also has five wins, tied with Pincay Jr. for second all-time behind Bailey.

Winners

Records

Most wins: * 7 -

(1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003) * 5 - Laffit Pincay, Jr. (1971, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1985) * 5 - Irad Ortiz Jr. (2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023) * 4 -

Pat Day Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, 1953, in Brush, Colorado) is a retired American jockey. He 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 an ...

(1984, 1986, 1987, 1991) * 4 -

(2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)

References

The Eclipse Awards at the Thoroughbred Racing Associations of America, Inc.

''The Bloodhorse.com'' Champion's history charts
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Winners

Records

See also

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