Shaun Bridgmohan

Shaun Xavier Bridgmohan (born June 24, 1979, in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-American jockey who competes in Thoroughbred horse racing.

At age thirteen, Bridgmohan's family emigrated to the United States, settling in South Florida where he developed an interest in horse racing. Before becoming a jockey, and while still in school, he worked at a Florida racetrack as a hot walker, groom, and as an exercise rider. After graduating from high school he pursued a riding career and in August 1997 earned his first win at Calder Race Course. Six months later on February 15, 1998, he won six races on a single card at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York, finishing 1998, which was his breakout year, as the winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. On December 22, 2007, he again won six races on a single card, this time at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. On April 1, 2017, he recorded his 3,000th win.

Horses ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan Gaff in the $100,000 Mr. Prospector Handicap at Gulfstream Park On Thin Ice in the $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap

Despite the lyric, Bridgmohan was actually the second Jamaican jockey to race in the Kentucky Derby, doing so first in 2006 atop the horse Private Vow and a second time, including a second-place finish, riding atop Commanding Curve in 2014, when he was joined by fellow Jamaican jockey Rajiv Maragh, who placed fourth atop Wicked Strong. The first Jamaican in the Kentucky Derby was actually Richard DePass, appearing in both 1978 atop the horse Hoist the Silver and 1979 riding Great Redeemer.

Bridgmohan was also referenced in the song "Shorty Said" by Das Racist, with the lyric, "Shorty said I look like Shaun Bridgmohan."

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