Jockey Katie Davis to Ride During 2025-2026 Championship Meet
At 5h08, on November 8, 2025 • By Gulfstream Park
Her ledger includes having ridden at 18 racetracks in 10 states as well as competing in both Puerto Rico and England over her dozen years as a professional jockey. Starting later this month, Katie Davis will be checking another one off the list.
Davis, already having surpassed a career-best in purse earnings with seven weeks to go after emerging as a breakout star during the Netflix documentary series Race for the Crown following its springtime release, plans to ride full-time at Gulfstream Park’s 2025-2026 Championship Meet. The country’s most prestigious winter race destination opens Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27 and runs through March 29.
“We’re coming,” the 33-year-old Davis said. “We’re just looking for a new challenge. I love setting goals and trying to reach them. That’s it. It is a new track to add to my list, so I’m excited.”
The Davis name is a familiar one at Gulfstream. Her father, Robbie, split time between Florida and New York during his riding career that saw him win 3,382 races including 31 Grade 1 stakes between 1981 and 2002. Younger brother Dylan spent his apprentice season of 2013-2014 in South Florida and returned last winter to rank among the Championship Meet’s leading riders with 38 wins and $2.37 million in purses earned despite missing the first five weeks.
Katie Davis grew up wintering at Gulfstream and it was where she first met her future husband, ex-jockey Trevor McCarthy, when they were just children and McCarthy’s father, Michael, rode on the Florida-Delaware Park circuit. Their families became close, and the elder McCarthys currently live year-round in Delray Beach, roughly 40 miles north of the track.
