Before the 2026 Kentucky Derby started on Saturday, May 2, jockeys received a command to mount up from someone who had been in their shoes. Pat Day, the legendary jockey who won the 1992 Kentucky ...

Thirty-four years after winning the Kentucky Derby for the first and only time, Pat Day was back at the center of the action Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Hall of Fame jockey delivered the ...

Day rode in the Kentucky Derby a total of 22 times in his career, but his only victory was in his 10th start. Day's 1992 win with Lil E. Tee, a horse trained by Lynn Whiting, is considered one of the ...