Birth Date: Friday, February 27, 1970
Birth Place: Maurice, La.

Career: He finished in the top 10 rider standings at Churchill in the spring, winning the Eight Belles (G3) with Victoria’s Wildcat and the Distaff Turf Mile aboard Aviate. He won the Dixie (G2) at Pimlico aboard Paddy O’Prado. Kent won Rampart and Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic in 2010 aboard Unrivaled Belle. Enjoyed acclaim in 2008 as the regular rider of champion Big Brown, the Florida Derby, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winning Eclipse winner of 2008, and as Bill Mott’s go-to guy after Jerry Bailey’s retirement in 2006 .... Signaled his return to the upper echelon of jockeys by winning 31 races in three months at Gulfstream in 2007, his first season riding full-time in South Florida ...  Was only 34 when he was elected to racing’s Hall of Fame in 2004 ... Won three Eclipse Awards, his first as an apprentice in 1987 and his next two (1989 and ‘92) as a journeyman ... He joins Chris McCarron and Steve Cauthen as the only jockeys to win Eclipse Awards in both categories ... He’s won Kentucky Derbys with Real Quiet in 1998 and Fusaichi Pegasus in 2000. Real Quiet also won the Preakness and came within a nose of a Triple Crown sweep, losing the Belmont to Victory Gallop ... He became the youngest rider to win 3,000 races in 1995 and at age 27 was the youngest rider to go past the $100 million mark in career earnings, hitting that mark riding Formal Gold to victory in the Iselin Handicap at Monmouth ... He won the  George Woolf Award in 1993 for high standards in his personal and professional life. Other: The native Louisianan won his apprentice Eclipse for his work riding in Maryland. While his wife was pregnant, he fell during a race and was kicked in the head, fracturing his skull in several places. His wife went into premature labor, and the two shared a hospital room during recovery and the birth of their first son ... His father owned a small racetrack in Louisiana.