Pat Day
Career Wins: 8803
Pat Day Career Earnings: $17 million
Major Racing Wins: American Classic, Breeder’s Cup
Racing Award: Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey.
Status: Retired
His signature win recorded (Breeders’ Cup Classic in 1984), an event of $3 million, as per sources he earned $500k including bonuses and 10% prize money share from the race.
Pat Day is a professional retired American jockey. He won major races including American Classic and Breeders Cup’s. A jockey earn 10% of each tournament prize money, If the event overall winners purse is $1 million the jockey received his share of $100k. Pat Day career earnings exceed $17 million which include his sponsorship money, bonus money and event based earnings.
| Jockey | Rank | Top Record | Significant Horse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pat Day | Fourth All Time | in 2000, first on the national earning list | Easy Goar |
Pat Day Career Top Records:
In 1985 he won the George Wolf Memorial award. After that in 1995, he won the Mike Venezia Memorial Award Pet day won the US Tripple Crown 9 times. He is all time leading rider at Churchill down and set record winning eight of nine mounts in one day. Along with this he also wons the Breeder’s Classic Cup four times in his career.