Jon Court rode in Louisiana for 12 years before moving to Kentucky and Indiana in 1995, where he was a top rider at Hoosier Park from 1996 to 1998.
10 Facts About Jon Court
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Jon Court rode his 3,000th winner at Santa Anita Park on April 7,2005,25 years to the day from his first win.
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In 2006, Court was elected secretary of the Jockeys' Guild and is the Guild's representative board member for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association's Charities-Permanently Disabled Jockeys' Fund.
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Jon Court, who has been called "an unfailingly polite man" by ESPN, received the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in February 2007.
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Jon Court was one of the jockeys featured in the first season of Animal Planet's 2009 reality documentary Jockeys before he moved his tack back to Kentucky.
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However, Jon Court was removed from the Derby mount by the horse's trainer, John Sadler.
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Jon Court repeated his win in the Arkansas Derby in 2011 with Archarcharch, trained by his father-in-law, Jinks Fires.
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Jon Court retained the mount for the 2011 Kentucky Derby.
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Jon Court was injured in a fall on May 3,2014, breaking his hand.
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On December 3,2016, Jon Court earned his 4,000th win aboard City Without Pity at Turfway Park.