José Santos León

José Santos León (born April 26, 1961 in Concepción , Chile ) is a former Chilean jockey .

José Santos contested his first horse race at the Club Hípico de Concepción in his native Chile. In doing so, he followed in the footsteps of his father and three of his brothers. In 1981 he moved to the United States, where from 1986 to 1989 he was the jockey with the greatest cash profits for four consecutive years. In 1988 he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey , in 1999 he received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award and in 2003 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes on Funny Cide . In 2007 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of American Equestrian Sports.