Craig Perret
| Craig Perret | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Clark Handicap (2001)
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| Racing awards | |
| U.S. Champion Apprentice Jockey by earnings (1967) Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey (1990) George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1998) | |
| Honors | |
| Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame (1994) Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (2006) National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (2019) | |
| Significant horses | |
| Honest Pleasure, Bet Twice, Unbridled Strike the Gold, Alydeed, Peteski Forty Niner, Rhythm, Pine Bluff, With Approval | |
Craig Perret (born February 2, 1951, in
In 1987 Perret rode
He has earned a number of other accolades including the 1990 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey of the year,[4] and in 1998 his peers voted him the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.[5]
Craig Perret and his family live on a farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky and operate a small full-breed breeding operation.
In 1994, Craig Perret was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame[6] and in 2006 into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.[7] In 2006 he was also nominated for induction in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, and was officially inducted in 2019.[8]
References
- ^ Craig Perret bio at the NTRA Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ New York Times - June 7, 1987
- ^ New York Times - May 6, 1990
- ^ Dallas Morning News - February 10, 1991
- ^ George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award at the Jockeys' Guild Archived 2016-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Fair Grounds Hall of Fame" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2012-06-02.
- ^ Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
- ^ Craig Perret 2006 nomination at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Archived 2007-04-15 at the Wayback Machine