Ray Sibille

Sport: Horse Racing

Induction Year: 2024

Sibille retired from racing in 2004 after a 35-year career that saw him record 4,264 wins, the first of which came at Evangeline Downs in July 1969 after honing his craft on the Louisiana bush tracks. His mounts won $68,880,807.

A year after his retirement, he was selected as the winner of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, which is given annually by Santa Anita Park for career achievements and personal character that reflect positively on themselves as well as the sport of thoroughbred racing.

Sibille, who had to retire from racing at the age of 52 because of hip and back problems, won the Breeders Cup Turf in 1988 aboard Great Communicator. He made his name at some of the nation’s top Midwest tracks in the 1970s, winning riding titles at Arlington Park, Hawthorne and Sportsman’s Park, He had 105 wins at Sportsman’s Park in 1981, which was a record that stood until 1992.

Sibille, the brother-in-law of jockey Pat Day, won his 4,000th race in 2000 at that same track. A 31-year member of the Jockey’s Guild, he served on its board of directors as well as on the financial committee. … Born 9-13-1952 in Sunset.