Luis Contreras

Luis Contreras, born on 14 March 1986, is a Mexican Thoroughbred jockey who has ridden since 2006. After starting in Mexico he began competing in the United States and Canada in the late 2000s. In graded stakes he has won forty Grade III races, twenty-two Grade II races and four Grade I races, and in 2011 he won all three legs of the Canadian Triple Crown. His best American Triple Crown results were third in the 2014 Preakness Stakes and sixth in the 2018 Kentucky Derby, and his highest Breeders Cup finish was second in the 2017 Filly and Mare Sprint. He took the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey in 2011 and 2012 and has won more than 2,500 races and over 100 million dollars in prize money.