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Jimmy with his wife Tina,
son Cameron and parents Connie & Roy Brooks.
• Rock You – foaled in 2011, by Foose
and out of Babe On The Fly, by Strawfly Special. The multiple graded-stakes-winning gelding earned $790,325 was ranked 11th by earnings in 2014. Ridden by Jimmy, he ran second in his trial for the Golden State Futurity and finished the final third. He then went on to win his trial for the Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity.
As a sophomore, Rock You won the Bob Moore Memorial Stakes-G2 and both his Ruidoso Derby trial and the Grade 1 final. He then ran second in his Rainbow Derby trial and finished seventh in the Grade 1 final. He ran third in his trials for the All American Derby and the Los Alamitos Super Derby.
At 4, still ridden by Jimmy, Rock You repeated his Grade 2 Bob Moore Memorial Stakes win, ran second in the Remington Championship Challenge Stakes-G2,
seventh in the Remington Park Invitational Championship Stakes-G1 and eighth in the Mr. Jet Moore Handicap-G3. He also ran fourth in the Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1 and won the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors Invitational and qualified for the Champion of Champions-G1.
• Coronado Cartel – foaled in 2011,
by Corona Cartel and out of the Mr Jess Perry mare First Carolina. The multiple stakes-winning colt won seven of 13 starts with three seconds, earning $418,078 and finishing 2013 16th by wins and 22nd by earnings. His wins included the Oklahoma- Bred Futurity and his trials for the All American Futurity and the Texas Classic Futurity-G1, in which final he ran fifth.
His second year out, Coronado Cartel won the Mr Jess Perry Stakes at Ruidoso, and
ran second in the Mr Master Bug Handicap at Remington Park and in his trial for the Ruidoso Derby.
LIFE AT HOME
In 2012, Jimmy married his high school sweetheart, Tina. “She was my first girlfriend, but we broke up. Then around 2009 or 2010, I got on Facebook. She friended me and we got back together.”
They each have one child: Jimmy Dean’s son, Cameron, and Tina’s daughter, Ashley, who is married and has a 5-year-old daughter of her own, Callie Rae.
ABOUT THE AWARD
Speedhorse magazine, in conjunction with The Jockeys’ Guild, modeled the Sam Thompson Memorial Jockey Award after the Thoroughbred industry’s George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. The award is
The 2021
Sam Thompson Memorial Jockey Award was presented to Jimmy Brooks
on Sunday,
Sept. 5, 2021,
at Ruidoso Downs.
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