Jockey Dylan Davis to Ride Four on Pegasus Preview Day
At 0h04, on December 21, 2024 • By Gulfstream
Jockey Dylan Davis, wrapping up a career season, will make his 2024-2025 Championship Meet debut with four mounts on Saturday’s Pegasus Preview Day program at Gulfstream Park.
Davis, 30, is named in three of the five stakes – Digital Ops in the $165,000 Harlan’s Holiday (G3), Grade 1 winner and 5-2 program favorite Win for the Money in the $215,000 Fort Lauderdale (G2), and Breath Away in the $140,000 Suwannee River (G3).
Digital Ops will be making his sixth start and first in stakes company. He owns two wins, both with Davis aboard – a June 30 maiden special weight and Oct. 26 optional claiming allowance, both at Aqueduct.
“I had booked Dylan to ride the race and I didn’t even know he had ridden the horse twice. It looks like a genius move but it was actually accidental,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said. “[Digital Ops is] kind of unknown. If you watch both of his [wins], he’s been on the lead and he’s ran well.”
From a racing family, Davis’ father, Robbie, rode 3,382 winners between 1982 and 2002 and sisters Jackie and Katie are active jockeys in Pennsylvania and New York, respectively. Dylan Davis has set career highs in 224 with 207 wins, $16 million in purses earned and 10 graded-stakes victories including the Saratoga Derby Invitational (G1) with Carson’s Run.
Starting in January, Davis will be full-time in South Florida for the duration of the Championship Meet, which runs through March 30. In his first full season of riding, Davis spent the winter of 2013-2014 at Gulfstream where he tied Jose Lezcano for seventh during the Championship Meet with 41 wins from 331 starts to go along with $967,028 in purse earnings.
For his career, Davis owns 1,473 wins and nearly $91 million in purses earned.
