Gary Stevens

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gary Stevens
Occupation	Horse Jockey
Date Of Birth	Mar 6, 1963(1963-03-06)
Age	61
Birthplace	Idaho
Country	United States
Birth City	Idaho
Horoscope	Pisces

Gary Stevens Biography

Gary Stevens is one of the most popular and richest Horse Jockey who was born on March 6, 1963 in Idaho, Idaho, United States. American horse jockey and television commentator who won an amazing 5000 races worldwide, and later became an actor.

He is one of the top American jockeys of all time alongside Willie Shoemaker.

Stevens was born in Caldwell, Idaho, the youngest of three sons born to Ron and Barbara Stevens. Ron was a race horse trainer who worked with both Thoroughbreds and American Quarter Horses. Stevens grew up around horses and first rode when he was three years old, assisted by his mother, who had been a rodeo queen. As a seven-year-old child, Stevens had to wear a brace for 19 months due to a degenerative disease of the hip, Perthes syndrome. He began helping his father as a horse groom at the age of eight. In high school, Stevens was a wrestler with potential to obtain college athletic scholarships. However, he dropped out of school in 1979 to pursue a career as a jockey.

One of his older brothers, Scott, became a professional jockey, and at age 12 Stevens had decided to do the same. By the time he was 14, he was riding American Quarter Horses at small bush tracks. At age 16 he switched to Thoroughbreds, and at 17 won his first race at Les Bois Park, in Boise, Idaho on Little Star, a horse trained by his father. After leaving high school, he spent four months in southern California working for horse trainer Chuck Taliaferro, who had helped develop other young jockeys, including Steve Cauthen and Cash Asmussen. He returned to Boise for about a year, then rode from 1981 to 1982 at Portland Meadows, where he won two awards for his race riding. He went on to Longacres, near Seattle, Washington from 1982 through 1984, where he won 524 times, including a number of graded stakes races, broke numerous riding records and was the leading rider two years in a row.

He grew up in a horse racing family and was riding American Quarter Horses by age 14.

Gary Stevens Net Worth

Gary Stevens is one of the richest Horse Jockey from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Stevens 's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He worked for his horse trainer father from the time he was seven years old.

He won the Breeder’s Cup five times.

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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Gary Stevens height 5′ 4″ Gary weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Gary Stevens Dating?

According to our records, Gary Stevens married to Angela Athayde (m. 2004). As of December 1, 2023, Gary Stevens’s is not dating anyone.

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In the 2003 movie Seabiscuit, Stevens played jockey George Woolf, receiving generally positive reviews. He was recruited for the role in 2002 by the director, Gary Ross, and worked for four months on the film. He had assorted small parts in other works, including brief appearances in the TV series Jockeys and Wildfire In 2011 he became a regular cast member on the HBO television series Luck produced by Thoroughbred owner David Milch, starring as an on-the-skids jockey named Ronnie. The cancellation of the show in 2012 prior to the beginning of its second season turned out to provide Stevens with the inspiration to return to actual race riding.

Facts & Trivia

Gary Ranked on the list of most popular Horse Jockey. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gary Stevens celebrates birthday on March 6 of every year.

At the time of his 2005 temporary retirement, his mounts had collected over $221 million with 4,888 winners in North America, ranking Stevens fifth in all-time winnings at the time. He had over 5,000 wins in 2005 when including overseas victories, including 49 wins in the UK, 55 races in France, and 20 victories in Hong Kong. Stevens considers his 5,000th win to have been in the Gaviola Stakes on October 30, 2005.

Where is Gary Stevens now?

However, Stevens retired as a jockey for a third and final 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.

Is Gary Stevens still riding horses?

Gary Stevens, who permanently retired from riding in 2018 , returned to Hot Springs Dec. 1 to begin laying the groundwork for the 2021-2022 Oaklawn meeting as the agent for Southern California-based jockeys Geovanni Franco and Tiago Pereira.

What horses did Gary Stevens ride?

Gary began competing while still a teenager, riding American Quarter Horses. He soon switched to Thoroughbreds, and he won his first start at Les Bois Park in Boise, Idaho.

Who is Gary Stevens related to?

Gary Stevens (born 4 January 1944) is an Australian former rugby league footballer, a hard tackling second-row forward, of the 1960s and 1970s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs and the Australian national representative side. He is the grandson of Souths club great Arthur Oxford.

Who is Gary Stevens wife?

Angela Athayde