Jockey's pay, interesting info

Originally Posted by Cardus

A friend of mine goes to the Derby every year, and usually hangs out around the walking ring and the passage way to the jocks room. He is pretty good at getting jocks to sign posters, programs, etc. (It's for his collection, he is not an e-bay hawk.) After the 2004 Derby, Pat Day is walking back to the jockeys' quarters full of mud, beaten badly if I recall. He sees a 90-year-old man being pushed in his wheelchair by his son. The man's tee-shirt says, "I'm 90 years old, and this is my first Derby." Day hops a fence and spends five minutes with the man. It had to make his day.

Day could have kept walking, but took time out after the world's biggest race to meet someone. That's great.

(And to think that no big-name jockey gets more crap than him at Belmont Park.)

His rides were questionable at best on easy Goer and even worse on the Seeking the Gold(pull up his travers sometime, I still get angry and red faced watching it).
But as a human being hes one of the most incredible people you will ever meet. That story with the man in the wheelchair is pretty much what you would expect from Pat. Not surprising at all. In a world where so many people don't practice what they preach, Pat is a man who preaches so much, and practices every bit of that and more.
That being said his rides on Goer and Seeking The Gold probably took years off Shug's life.