Annual horse-racing award presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, USA
The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct both on and off the racetrack.[1]
The award was created through donations from the racing public after the death of Hall of Fame jockey George Woolf. The one-time-only award is voted on by members of the Jockeys' Guild who chose from among their peers nominated by Guild regional managers. The trophy that goes along with the award is a one-foot-high replica of the life-size statue of George Woolf that, along with a bronze sculpture of his favorite mount, Seabiscuit, has a place of honor in the Santa Anita Paddock Gardens.[2]
Past winners:
2023 : Javier Castellano
2022 : Joe Bravo
2021 : Deshawn L. Parker
2020 : Luis M. Quinones
2019 : Scott Stevens
2018 : José C. Ferrer
2017 : Stewart Elliott
2016 : Victor Espinoza
2015 : Mike Luzzi
2014 : Corey Lanerie
2013 : Mario G. Pino
2012 : Ramon A. Dominguez
2011 : Garrett K. Gomez
2010 : Calvin Borel
2009 : John Velazquez
2008 : Richard Migliore
2007 : Jon Court
2006 : Mark Guidry
2005 : Ray Sibille
2004 : Robby Albarado
2003 : Edgar Prado
2002 : Russell Baze
2001 : Dean Kutz
2000 : Mike E. Smith
1999 : José A. Santos
1998 : Craig Perret
1997 : Alex Solis
1996 : Gary Stevens
1995 : Eddie Maple
1994 : Phil Grove
1993 : Kent Desormeaux
1992 : Jerry Bailey
1991 : Earlie Fires
1990 : John L. Lively
1989 : Larry Snyder
1988 : Don Brumfield
1987 : Don MacBeth
1986 : Jorge Velásquez
1985 : Pat Day
1984 : Steve Cauthen
1983 : Marco Castaneda
1982 : Pat Valenzuela
1981 : Eddie Delahoussaye
1980 : Chris McCarron
1979 : Ron Turcotte
1978 : Darrel McHargue
1977 : Frank Olivares
1976 : Sandy Hawley
1975 : Fernando Toro
1974 : Álvaro Pineda
1973 : John L. Rotz
1972 : Ángel Cordero Jr.
1971 : Jerry Lambert
1970 : Laffit Pincay Jr.
1969 : Johnny Sellers
1968 : Braulio Baeza
1967 : Donald R. Pierce
1966 : Alex Maese
1965 : Walter Blum
1964 : Manuel Ycaza
1963 : Ismael Valenzuela
1962 : Steve Brooks
1961 : Peter Moreno
1960 : William Harmatz
1959 : William Boland
1958 : Merlin Volzke
1957 : Ted Atkinson
1956 : John H. Adams
1955 : Raymond York
1954 : Ralph Neves
1953 : Eddie Arcaro
1952 : Johnny Longden
1951 : Bill Shoemaker
1950 : Gordon Glisson
^2011/2012 Santa Anita Park Winter/Spring Media Guide[permanent dead link]
^The Jockeys' Guild Archived 2016-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
and 24 Related for: George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award information
The GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing...
George Monroe Woolf (May 31, 1910 – January 4, 1946), nicknamed "The Iceman", was a Canadian thoroughbred race horse jockey. An annual jockey'saward...
in 2015 by Victor Espinoza). He was voted the prestigious GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct exemplifies...
Gomez MemorialAward for his contribution to the sport of Thoroughbred racing. In 2017 Stewart Elliott was voted the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward, a...
Outstanding Jockey of the year, and in 1998 his peers voted him the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward. Craig Perret and his family live on a farm in Shelbyville...
the 1968 winner of the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward, and the 1972 and 1975 winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey. During his career, he...
Valenzuela became the youngest jockey to ever win the Santa Anita Derby. He was voted the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward by his peers in 1982. Pat Valenzuela...
Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California. In 1951, he won the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward. At the age of 19, he was making so much money (as much as...
of Fame. Lanerie won the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward in 2014, an honor bestowed upon him by a vote of his fellow jockeys. He is noted for being respected...
as seven Breeders' Cup races. Eddie Delahoussaye was awarded the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward in 1981. He was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing...
horses and riders from Europe. In 1953 Arcaro was voted the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward, and in 1958 he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing...
Hollywood Park Racetrack. On February 23, 2008, Migliore won the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward. In the summer of 2008, Migliore announced he would be returning...
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey as best overall jockey and that same year his peers voted him the prestigious GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward. In...
124th Kentucky Derby. In 1991, Fires was voted the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward, given to a jockey who demonstrates high standards of personal and...
the 2010 GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward. On May 1, 2010, he rode Super Saver to win his 3rd Kentucky Derby in a 4-year span, the first jockey ever to...
peers, in 1959 Bill Boland received the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward given to the North American jockey who demonstrates high standards of personal...
Mike Luzzi accepted the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward at Santa Anita Park. It is one of the highest honors for a jockey and their contributions both...
them saw him become one of the country's top jockeys and be voted the 1964 GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward by his peers. An icon in his country of birth...
Roberto's older brother, Alvaro, a top jockey in California who had won the 1974 GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward, was also killed in a freak starting...
racing jockey who won the 1959 Preakness Stakes aboard Royal Orbit. The recipient of the GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward in 1960, given to a jockey who...
successful jockeys of his generation. Racing in California, Hawley was named the winner of Santa Anita Park's prestigious GeorgeWoolfMemorialJockeyAward. Given...
Global Information