Laffit Pincay Jr.

Laffit Pincay Jr. is a retired Panamanian jockey who competed mainly in the United States and once held the all-time record for race wins, a total that still stands third many years after his retirement. He learned to ride by watching his father, a jockey at tracks in Panama and Venezuela, began in Panama and in 1966 came to the United States under contract to the owner Fred Hooper. He won eight of his first eleven races at Arlington Park, was the leading American jockey seven times and won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey five times. In 1973 he rode Sham, who finished second to Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby and lost to him again in the Preakness. He received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1970 and the Mike Venezia Memorial Award in 1996.