Christophe Patrice Lemaire is a French-born jockey. He takes his middle name from his father who made a name for himself in the world of French handicap racing.In 1999 he obtained the licence required for a French jockey and began racing. He has steadily built up a good track record becoming the seventh leading jockey in 2003 and winning the French Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris in the same year. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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