Filip Minařík

Filip Minařík (10 March 1975 – 4 September 2023) was a Czech jockey who was active in German horse racing.

[1] Minařík won the German Jockey Championship in 2005, 2011, 2016, and 2017 (together with Alexander Pietsch [de]).

[2] After a serious fall during a horse race in Mannheim in July 2020, Minařík was in a coma for four weeks.

[3][4] This incident accelerated his plans to leave jockeying and contribute to the sport in other ways.

His father was the two-time Czech jockey champion and later trainer Ferdinand Minařík Sr. [cs].

Filip Minařík with his friend Hein Bollow [ de ]
Filip Minařík (centre) at the award ceremony for the Grosser Preis von Baden