Birthdate: Aug. 29, 1957
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
Residence: Davie, Florida
Family: wife, Suzee; son, Justin Daniel.

Jerry began racing in 1974 with a win on his first mount, Fetch, at New Mexico's Sunland Park, and has gone on to win 5,892 races. Among his numerous wins, he can boast 6 victories in Triple Crown races and a record 15 wins in Breeders' Cup races, including 5 Breeders' Cup Classics. 3 of his Breeders' Cup Classic wins were consecutive (1993-1995). Bailey is perhaps most famous among racing fans as the regular rider of 1990s great Cigar.

Jerry Bailey has claimed nearly all of racing’s most glittering prizes. He has won the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont 2 times each, as well as a record 14 Breeders’ Cup races.

 2004

• On August 6, Bailey became Saratoga’s all-time leading rider when he rode Tattinger Rose to victory, bringing his win total at Saratoga to 641
• Won the All-Star Jockey Championship, October 30 at Lone Star Park     

       2003

• Won the Eclipse Award – Outstanding Jockey
• Won the Preakness and Belmont with Empire Maker
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Mile with French-bred Six Perfections (this was the record setting 14th Breeders’ Cup victory for Bailey)
• Saturday, November 29, 2003, shattered Mike Smith’s long standing record of most stakes wins in a season (68) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 when he won three stakes races in a row at Aqueduct race track, bringing his 2003 total to 70
• Broke the record for most Grade 1 wins, in a season, in 2003 with a total of 26 victories .
• Broke his own North American earnings record, by earning $23,354,960
• Became the first jockey to wear corporate sponsorship during a major stakes race when he displayed Wrangler’s logo on his breeches during the Belmont Stakes

      2002

• Won the Eclipse Award – Outstanding Jockey
• Set a North American earnings record of $22,271,814
• Won the $6 million Dubai World Cup on March 23 aboard Street Cry
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Orientate

       2001

• Won the Eclipse Award – Outstanding Jockey
• Became the first jockey in history to pass the $20 million mark when he rode Hap to victory in the Shadwell Keeneland Turf Mile Stakes at Keeneland Race Course on October 7, 2001
• Won the $6 million Dubai World Cup on March 24 aboard Captain Steve
• Won the All-Star Jockey Championship at Long Star Park
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Squirtle Squirt

       2000

• Won the Eclipse Award – Outstanding Jockey
• Won the Preakness Stakes with Red Bullet
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Macho Uno
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf with Perfect Sting

      1999

• Won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf with Soaring Softly

      1998

• Won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Answer Lively
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with Cash Run
• Won the national jockey earnings title with $17,069,905

      1997

• Won the Eclipse Award – Outstanding Jockey
• ESPY Award – Best Jockey
• Won the $4 million Dubai World Cup on April 3 at Ned Al Sheba, United Arab Emirates aboard Singspeil
• Won the national jockey earnings title with $18,346,282

      1996

• Won the Eclipse Award – Outstanding Jockey
• Won ESPY Award – Best Jockey
• Won the Kentucky Derby with Grindstone
• Won the inaugural $4 million Dubai World Cup on March 27 at Ned Al Sheba, United Arab Emirates aboard Cigar
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Boston Harbor
• Won the national jockey earnings title with $19,465,376

      1995

• Inducted into the Hall of Fame
• Won the Eclipse Award
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Classic with Cigar
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with My Flag
• Went undefeated in 10 races with Cigar, including The Donn Handicap (GI)on February 11 at Gulfstream Park, Gulfstream Park Handicap (GI) on March 5, The Oaklawn Park Handicap (GI) at Oaklawn Park on April 15, The Pimlico Special at Pimlico Race Course on May 13, the July 2 Hollywood Gold Cup (GI) Hollywood Park, the September 16 The Woodward Handicap (GI) at Belmont Park, the October 7 The Jockey Club Gold Cup (GI) at Belmont Park, and the Breeders' Cup Classic (GI) on October 28 at Belmont Park:
• Won an unprecedented seven races in Florida
• Won the national jockey earnings title with $16,308,230

      1994

• Won the Breeders’ Cup Classic with Concern

      1993

• Won the Kentucky Derby with Sea Hero
• Won the Breeder’s Cup Classic with French import Arcangues
  (at 133-1, Arcangues was the biggest long shot in history to win a Breeders’ Cup race).
• Presented with the Mike Venezia Award from the New York Racing Association

      1992

• Won the Woolf Award from the Jockey’s Guild at Santa Anita Park

       1991

• Won the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes with Hansel
• Won the Breeders’ Cup Classic with Black Tie Affair

     1984

• Won the New York Handicap Triple Crown (the Metropolitan,zSuburban,and Brooklyn Handicaps) with Fit to Fight

     1974

• Began riding at Sunland Park at age 17
• Rode his first race on November 2
• Won his first race on November 3, aboard the longshot Fetch at Sunland Park (Jerry went two for two when he guided another longshot Roniway to win later in the card).

Career:

• Scored his third career Florida Derby win last year aboard High Fly
• Inducted into Racing Hall of Fame in 1985. Has won seven Eclipse
• Awards as leading jockey from 1995 through 1997 and 2000 through 2003
• Broke his own records in 2003 for single season earnings ($23.3 million) and stakes wins (70)
• Became first rider to pass $20 million mark in career earnings on October 7, 2001, when he piloted Hap to victory in Shadwell Keeneland Turf Mile; ended that year with then record $22,015,720 in earnings
• His 15 Breeders' Cup victories tops all riders
• 3of those wins came in consecutive editions of the Breeders’ Cup Classic wins from 1993 through 1995 
• Captured the Classic for the fifth time last year aboard Saint Liam
• Scored 14 other grade one wins in 2005 aboard 12 different runners: First Samurai (Champagne and Hopeful Stakes), Good Reward (Manhattan Handicap), High Fly, Roman Ruler (Haskell), Sand Springs (Diana Handicap), Saint Liam (Breeders Cup Classic and Woodward Stakes), Shakespeare (Joe Hirsch Turf Classic), Splendid Blended (Vanity Handicap), Stellar Jane (Ruffian Handicap), Summerly (Kentucky Oaks ), I’m the Tiger (DeFrancis Dash), and Sweet Symphony (Alabama Stakes)
• Leading rider at Gulfstream 1995, 1996 and 1998 
• Has also topped standings multiple times at Saratoga, Belmont Park, and Keeneland, among others...Also led or tied for the lead during Calder’s Tropical meets three times, most recently 1980
• Became Saratoga’s all-time leading rider with his 641st win in 2004
• Best known as regular rider aboard Cigar, the "Horse of the World", who equaled modern day record for consecutive victories, 16, 1994-96
• Four of those triumphs occurred at Gulfstream Park
• Also piloted Skip Away during that one's Horse of the Year campaign in 1998
• Won first two runnings of Dubai World Cup, on Cigar (1996) and Singspiel (1997), then won race again in 2001 atop Captain Steve
• Traveled abroad to partner Dubai Millennium to victory in Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot, 2000...His classic victories: Kentucky Derby (Sea Hero-1993, Grindstone-1996), Preakness (Hansel-1991, Red Bullet-2000) and Belmont Stakes (Hansel-1991, Empire Maker-2003)
• Won 13 stakes during 2001 Gulfstream meeting, establishing a local record
• Won 2001 All-Star Jockey Challenge at Lone Star Park
• Won the Gulfstream Park Handicap four straight times (Cigar - 1995; Wekiva Springs - 1996; Mt. Sassafras - 1997; Skip Away - 1998) and has won the Gulfstream Park Handicap a total of seven times
• Six stakes wins during 2005 Gulfstream meet tied for second behind only John Velazquez and included the Hal’s Hope Handicap aboard Badge of Silver, Shirley Jones Handicap with Madcap Escapade  and Fountain of Youth Stakes aboard High Fly
• Piloted Smok ‘n Frolic to win in inaugural Sunshine Millions Distaff in 2003
• Captured six straight wins at Belmont

Won with first career mount, Fetch, at Sunland Park in 1974
Introduced to racing through, father, a dentist, who owned claiming horses
Set Gulfstream record by winning seven races on one card, March 11, 1995

Rode in South Florida and Chicago in late 1970s and early 1980s before moving tack on permanent basis to New York in 1982
Career boosted by association with owner Rokeby Stable (Paul Mellon) and trainer Mackenzie Miller

Received the 1992 George Woolf Award and 1993 Mike Venezia Award, both peer-selected honors reflecting outstanding racing contributions and sportsmanship
Former national president of Jockeys' Guild; resigned from that organization's board of directors in July 2001