Jockey Chris Emigh

Born: 01/14/71 Resides: Chicago, Illinois Family: Kim, wife; Taylor, daughter; Hunter, son

On occasion Chris Emigh shows up at Oaklawn from Chicago.

This season he’s making the most of the trip, ranking in the top ten of the jockey standings.

He was riding in Louisiana a dozen years ago when fellow jockey Robby Albarado suggested he try Chicago.

He wound up winning 43 races at Hawthorne in 1996, won his first graded stakes ever when he roused Come On Flip to victory in the fabled Hawthorne Gold Cup.

A year later, August 25, 1997 at Arlington Park, he won his 1,000th career victory, it coming aboard Meadowlady.

He found a home at the Chicago tracks.

"Before that, I had ridden three years at Louisiana Downs and the Fair Grounds and, earlier still, the minor tracks of Louisiana,” he said.

By 1995 fans began hearing of the jockey when he won such stakes as the Col. Power Breeders' Cup on Mr. Cooperative, the Davona Dale aboard Legendary Princess and the Shiskabob on Blue Concord.

In 2005, he swept the Hawthorne crown with 66 winners and in 2006 he won the Arlington title with 119 and the Hawthorne crown with 56.  Emigh advises his name is German and that he followed his twin brother Aaron to the races.