José A. Santos

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

José Santos played his first horse race in the Club Hipico de Concepción in his native Chile. He followed in the footsteps of his father and three of his brothers. In 1981 he moved to the United States, where he was four years from 1986 to 1989 as a result of the jockey with the most money wins. In 1988, he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey, 1999, he received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award and in 2003 he won on Funny Cide the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. In 2007 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American equestrianism.

• Jockey
• Chilean
• Born in 1961
• Man