In 1939, Wright appeared in the Columbia Pictures film, Columbia World of Sports: Jockeys Up in which future National Radio Hall of Fame and American Sportscasters Hall of Fame inductee Bill Stern went to Santa Anita Park and spent the day visiting the stables and meeting with several jockeys, trainers, and horses.

[1] At age seventeen, Wayne Wright won his first Classic race, taking the 1934 Belmont Stakes with Peace Chance.

Wayne Wright was recognized as one of the best jockeys in North America and as such two owners and their trainers entrusted their Triple Crown champions to him.

In 1935, Wright rode the Triple Crown winner Omaha to a win in the Dwyer Stakes and the Arlington Classic.

He then spent some time training horses until 1956 when he and his wife Nadia purchased an 80-acre (320,000 m2) farm next to where his sister lived near Wellington in Smith Valley, Nevada.