Craig Perret

Craig Perret, born on 2 February 1951, is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who began riding at age five and was riding quarter horses in match races by seven. He was the leading apprentice jockey in the United States in 1967, won the Belmont Stakes on Bet Twice in 1987 and the Kentucky Derby on Unbridled in 1990, and took back-to-back Queen's Plates in 1993 and 1994. His Breeders' Cup wins include the Sprint in 1984 and 1990, the Juvenile in 1989 and the Juvenile Fillies in 1996. Of more than 4,400 career victories, he earned the 1990 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and the 1998 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2019.