Gary Stevens (jockey)

Gary L. Stevens
Gary Stevens at the 2013 Preakness Stakes
Occupation	Jockey
Born	(1963-03-06) March 6, 1963 (age 61) Caldwell, Idaho, U.S.
Career wins	5,025+ North America, ongoing[1] 5,100+ worldwide, incl.: 55 FR,[2] 50 UK,[3] 20 HK[4] 10 Dubai, 3 JPN, 1 IRE[5]
Major racing wins
American Classic Race wins: Kentucky Derby 1988, 1995, 1997 Preakness Stakes 1997, 2001, 2013 Belmont Stakes 1995, 1998, 2001 Kentucky Oaks 1986, 1999 Breeders' Cup wins Breeders' Cup Turf (1990) Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1993, 1999) Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (1998) Breeders' Cup Mile (1996, 2000) Breeders' Cup Distaff (1994, 1998, 2013, 2016) Breeders' Cup Classic (2013) Grade I stakes wins Acorn Stakes 1997 Arkansas Derby 1985 Arlington Million 1990 1997 Arlington-Washington Lassie Stakes 1986 Awesome Again Stakes 2013 Beldame Stakes 1995 Beverly D. Stakes 1991 2005 Beverly Hills Handicap 1994 1998 Californian Stakes 1993 Carleton F. Burke Handicap 1985 1988 Carter Handicap 1989 2003 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap 1991 1992 1994 2003 Clement L. Hirsch Turf Championship Stakes 1988 2003 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes 2015 Del Mar Debutante Stakes 2002 2013 Del Mar Futurity 1986 Del Mar Invitational Oaks 1994 Eddie Read Handicap 1995 Fantasy Stakes 1986 Frizette Stakes 1995 Futurity Stakes 1997 Gamely Handicap 1987 1992 1997 Gamely Stakes 2013 Gazelle Handicap 1995 Gazelle Stakes 2005 Haskell Invitational Stakes 1995 2001 Hollywood Derby 1988 Hollywood Futurity 2000 Hollywood Gold Cup 1988 1994 1997 Hollywood Oaks 1990 Hollywood Starlet Stakes 1990 1991 Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes 2004 Hopeful Stakes 1990 1995 Isle of Capri Casino Super Derby 1996 Jockey Club Gold Cup 1992 La Brea Stakes 1998 2013 La Cañada Stakes 1987 Las Virgenes Stakes 1992 1993 2014 Los Alamitos Futurity 2015 Malibu Stakes 2004 2015 Man o' War Stakes 1995 Marlboro Cup Handicap 1986 Matron Stakes 1988 1995 Moet Champagne Stakes 1997 Mother Goose Stakes 1995 Pacific Classic Stakes 1993 1997 2015 Pimlico Special Handicap 1991 1997 1999 Ramona Handicap 1986 Santa Ana Handicap 1989 1991 1992 Santa Anita Derby 1988 1990 1993 1994 1995 1998 1999 2001 2003 Santa Anita Handicap 1990 1991 1995 2005 Santa Anita Oaks 1987 1988 1989 1990 2014 San Antonio Handicap 1987 San Luis Rey Stakes 1991 Santa Barbara Handicap 1985 Santa Maria Handicap 1996 2001 2002 Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap 1999 Santa Monica Handicap 1990 1994 1996 2005 Secretariat Stakes 1994 Spinaway Stakes 1995 Suburban Handicap 1991 Swaps Stakes 2001 Travers Stakes 1995 2001 Vanity Mile Stakes 1995 2001 2013 2016 Whitney Handicap 1990 1991 2005 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Stakes 2001 Wood Memorial Stakes 1994 Woodward Stakes 1991 1993 Yellow Ribbon Stakes 1996 Zenyatta Stakes 2013 2015 Major international race wins Japan Cup 1991 Canadian International Stakes 1996 1998 Hardwicke Stakes 1997 Dubai World Cup 1998 International Stakes 1999 Duke of Edinburgh Stakes 1999 Great Voltigeur Stakes 1999 Dubai Sheema Classic 2004 Prix Maurice de Gheest 2004
Racing awards
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1996) Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey (1998) Mike Venezia Memorial Award (1999) Big Sport of Turfdom Award (2013)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1997)
Significant horses
Da Hoss Winning Colors Thunder Gulch Singspiel Silver Charm Victory Gallop Bertrando Silverbulletday Point Given Royal Anthem Fantastic Light Rock Hard Ten Serena's Song Commentator Oxbow Beholder Mucho Macho Man

Gary Lynn Stevens (born March 6, 1963) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, actor, and sports analyst. He became a professional jockey in 1979 and rode his first of three Kentucky Derby winners in 1988. He had nine wins in Triple Crown races, winning the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes three times each, as well as ten Breeders' Cup races. He was also a nine-time winner of the Santa Anita Derby. He entered the United States Racing Hall of Fame in 1997. Combining his U.S. and international wins, Stevens had over 5,000 race wins by 2005, and reached his 5,000th North American win on February 15, 2015.

His career successes were intertwined with significant injuries and periods of temporary retirement, mostly due to knee problems, from 1999 until 2000 and again from 2005 to 2013. He had an acting role in the 2003 film Seabiscuit. After his second retirement from riding in 2005, he worked for TVG and then HRTV and NBC Sports as a horse racing analyst for seven years, had a brief stint as a race horse trainer, and took a few other acting roles, notably in the TV series Luck, before coming out of retirement again in 2013. In the 2013 season, he won 69 of 383 races and finished the year 12th in the nation in purse earnings, winning a number of significant races including the 2013 Preakness Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Distaff and the Breeders' Cup Classic. In 2014, he rode in the first half of the year, but his knee problems became too severe to continue riding, and in July he announced a "break" in order to get a total knee replacement. He returned to riding by mid-October 2014, accepted mounts for the 2014 Breeders' Cup, and rode a winning race by mid-November 2014. Following the 2016 Breeders' Cup, he again took time off, this time for a hip replacement, returning to racing in March 2017.

Due to his multiple joint replacements and repeated returns to racing, "The Bionic Man" became one of his nicknames. However, Stevens retired as a jockey for a third and final time in 2018 on account of a neck injury incurred after a fall. In 2019, he returned to being a sportscaster, working as a racing analyst for Fox Sports.