page_title: Daniel A. Maher
section_title: English Riding Career
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel A. Maher / English Riding Career
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of Mr DA Maher. Caption read "Danny".
context_page_description: Daniel Aloysius Maher was an American Hall of Fame jockey who also became a Champion jockey in Great Britain.
context_section_description: In England, Maher won 1,421 races with 25 percent of his mounts. He won his first English Classic on Aida in the 1901 1,000 Guineas and later that year won the Chester Cup on the colt David Garrick, owned by American Pierre Lorillard IV. In 1903, Maher won two-thirds of England's Triple Crown with Rock Sand. He also won The Derby three times (1903, 1905, 1906), five Eclipse Stakes (1902, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1910), and was a two-time winner of the Ascot Gold Cup (1906, 1909). In 1907 Maher's wins included the King's Gold Vase.
  He was Britain's leading jockey in 1908 and 1913, the year he obtained British citizenship.
  Maher died at the age of 35 of consumption. He is buried in Paddington Cemetery, Mill Hill, London, England.
  In 1955, Maher was one of the inaugural inductees in the United States' Racing Hall of Fame. In 1999, the Racing Post ranked Maher as third in their list of the Top 50 jockeys of the 20th century.
caption: Maher caricatured by Ao for Vanity Fair, 1903
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