Best Jockey ESPY Award

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The Best Jockey ESPY Award , known alternatively as the Jockey of the Year ESPY Award, has been presented annually since 1994 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey, irrespective of nationality or gender, adjudged to be the best of those riding in the United States in a given calendar year.

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Between 1994 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous. [1] The award was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

YearJockeyPrincipal nation
of citizenship
1994 Mike E. Smith Flag of the United States.svg United States
1995 Chris McCarron Flag of the United States.svg United States
1996 Jerry Bailey Flag of the United States.svg United States
1997 Jerry Bailey (2)Flag of the United States.svg United States
1998 Gary Stevens Flag of the United States.svg United States
1999 Kent Desormeaux Flag of the United States.svg United States
2000 Chris Antley Flag of the United States.svg United States
2001 Kent Desormeaux Flag of the United States.svg United States
2002 Victor Espinoza Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
2003 José A. Santos Flag of Chile.svg Chile
2004 Stewart Elliott Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
2005 Jeremy Rose Flag of the United States.svg United States
2006 Edgar Prado Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
2007 Calvin Borel Flag of the United States.svg United States
2008 Kent Desormeaux Flag of the United States.svg United States
2009 Calvin Borel (2)Flag of the United States.svg United States
2010 Calvin Borel (3)Flag of the United States.svg United States
2011 John Velazquez Flag of the United States.svg United States
(Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico)
2012 Mario Gutierrez Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
2013 Joel Rosario Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic
2014 Victor Espinoza Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
2015 Victor Espinoza (2)Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
2016 Mario Gutierrez Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
2017 John Velazquez Flag of the United States.svg United States
(Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico)
2018 José Ortiz Flag of the United States.svg United States
2019 Mike Smith Flag of the United States.svg United States
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Joel Rosario Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic
2022 José Ortiz (2)Flag of the United States.svg United States

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Notes

  1. ↑ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance between February 2001 and June 2002.

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