Slade Callaghan

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Slade Callaghan
Occupation: Jockey
Birthplace: Bridgetown, Barbados
Birth date: August 21, 1970
Career wins: 580+ (ongoing)
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Barbados Derby Trial Stakes (1990)
Colin Stakes (1996, 1999)
Bunty Lawless Stakes (1999)
Connaught Cup Stakes (1999)
Kennedy Road Stakes (1999)
Victoria Stakes (1999)
Victoria Park Stakes (1999)
King Edward Stakes (2000)
New Providence Stakes (2000)
Sir Barton Stakes (2000)
Wonder Where Stakes (2000)
Cup and Saucer Stakes (2001, 2005)
Shepperton Stakes (2001)
Toronto Cup Stakes (2002)
Bison City Stakes (2003)
Barbados Gold Cup (2004)
Sky Classic Stakes (2004)
Frost King Stakes (2005)

Canadian Classic Race wins:
Breeders' Stakes (2002)

Significant Horses
Incitatus, Portcullis, Kathir

Slade Callaghan (born August 21, 1970 in Bridgetown, Barbados) is a jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

Considered tall for a jockey at 5' 8", Callaghan competed in his native Barbados where his success led him to relocate in 1994 to a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada.

Among his victories, Callaghan captured the 2002 Breeders' Stakes, a Canadian Classic Race. In 2004 he traveled to his homeland where he won the country's most prestigios race, the Barbados Gold Cup.

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