Awards & Winners

Jerry Bailey

Date of Birth 29-August-1957
Place of Birth Dallas
(United States of America, Texas, Area code 469, Area code 972, Area codes 214, 469, and 972)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Jockey
Jerry D. Bailey is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey. He began his racing career in November 1974. His first mount was on a horse named Pegged Rate, who ran off the board. He notched his first career win the next day on his second career mount, Fetch, at New Mexico's Sunland Park, and has gone on to win 5,892 races. Among his numerous wins, he can boast the New York Handicap Triple in 1984, six victories in American Classic Races races, and a record 15 wins in Breeders' Cup races, including five Breeders' Cup Classics. Three of his Breeders' Cup Classic wins were consecutive. Bailey is perhaps most famous among racing fans as the regular rider of 1990s great Cigar. In his 2005 book titled Against The Odds, Bailey wrote about his battles with alcoholism that affected a large part of his early career. When the 2003 Thoroughbred racing Eclipse Awards were handed out on January 26, 2004, Jerry Bailey was proclaimed the outstanding jockey in North America for an unprecedented seventh time; in 1997 he had been the first jockey to win three consecutive Eclipse Awards. In 1992, Bailey was selected for the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, arguably the top lifetime achievement award for North American jockeys. In 1993, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship". He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1995.

Awards by Jerry Bailey

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jerry Bailey.

2007


Nominations 2007 »

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Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality - Sports Event Analyst

2005


Nominations 2005 »

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Best Jockey ESPY Award

2004


Nominations 2004 »

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Best Jockey ESPY Award

2003


Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey

Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Best Jockey ESPY Award

2002


Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey

Nominations 2002 »

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Best Jockey ESPY Award

2001


Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Best Jockey ESPY Award

2000


Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey

Nominations 2000 »

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Best Jockey ESPY Award