José Santos
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José Santos (born April 26, 1961 in Concepcion, Chile) is an United States thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He first raced horses in his native Chile until moving to the United States in 1984 where he was the top money-winning jockey four years in a row from 1986 through 1989, winning the 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States.
José Santos is a seven-time winner of the Breeders' Cup races and won the 1999 Belmont Stakes aboard Lemon Drop Kid. He won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Funny Cide but missed winning the American Triple Crown after finished third in the Belmont Stakes.
Santos was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award by his peers in 1999 and was a winner at the 2003 ESPY Awards as the outstanding jockey in the United States.
