Chris J. Russell (born December 3, 1980, in Cheverly, Maryland) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
He learned to ride in South Carolina breaking babies for Frank "Gorrie" Smith.
Russell obtained his jockey's license in December 2003 and began riding in California (where he won his first race at Santa Anita on February 23, 2005)[1] before heading to the East Coast of the United States where he rode at Monmouth Park Racetrack in New Jersey for a short time before ending up at Laurel Park Racecourse (where he was involved in a November 2005 collision that sent both him and Rosie Napravnik to a hospital).
[2] In 2007, he returned to Southern California and the following year began riding at Los Alamitos Race Course.
[3] Russell won the top jockey award at the 2011 Humboldt County Fair meet in Ferndale, California[4] after having taken second place at the previous year's meet.