Garrett Gomez is scheduled to undergo surgery on a broken left heel Jan. 12, the jockey confirmed after seeing a specialist in California Jan. 9. Gomez, 40, was injured Jan. 8 when his mount, Silver ...

Two-time Eclipse Award winning jockey Garrett Gomez has passed away at the age of 44. Gomez won 13 Breeders' Cup races and was aboard Blame for his victory over Zenyatta in the 2010 Classic at ...

Garrett Gomez has won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey award in a nationwide vote of his fellow riders. Gomez will receive the honor at Santa Anita on March 20. He outpolled jockeys Joe Bravo, Javier ...

Go Between powers to victory in the Sunshine Millions Classic. Benoit Photo Go Between takes the Pacific Classic (gr. I) under Garrett Gomez. Benoit Photo Peter Vegso's homebred Go Between, winner of ...

It’s a tough life being a jockey, and perhaps nobody knew that better than Garrett Gomez. There are many adjectives to describe the longtime rider — enigmatic, troubled, brilliant — though it’s hard ...

Victory at today’s Santa Anita Derby not necessarily the main goal says trainer. Lookin At Lucky and jockey Garrett Gomez won the Grade I, $750,000 CashCall Futurity horse race at Hollywood Park in ...

Garrett Gomez is paid to be in control. Thighs and legs squeezing against a saddle, hands clenching a horse's reins, Gomez made his bosses $14.2 million last year alone by urging horses across the ...

Top jockey Garrett Gomez has been released from the hospital following a spill at Churchill Downs. Gomez was riding Indy Bouquet on the turf course in Thursday's sixth race when the 3-year-old filly ...