Patrick Husbands

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Patrick Husbands (born May 22, 1973, in Bridgetown, Barbados) is a Canadian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. The son of a jockey, he began riding as a young boy, turning professional in his home country where he rode successfully until emigrating to Toronto, Ontario in 1994.

Racing out of Woodbine Racetrack, in 2003 Husbands won the Canadian Triple Crown aboard the colt Wando. Among his other notable wins, he rode Numerous Times to victory in the $1 million 2001 Woodbine Mile and Exciting Story in that same years Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park in New York.

Patrick Husbands was voted the Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey an unprecedented four straight years between 1999 and 2002. He made his first Kentucky Derby appearance in 2006 riding Seaside Retreat for Louisville, Kentucky trainer Mark E. Casse.