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WHEREAS, Gary Stevens has had one of the most successful careers as a Jockey in the history of American horseracing, including eight Breeder’s Cup victories; and WHEREAS, Gary Stevens is one of only twenty Jockeys who have achieved 5,000 career wins; and WHEREAS, it is important to recognize Idahoans like Gary Stevens who have represented our state so successfully on the national and international level; and WHEREAS, Gary Stevens will celebrate his homecoming at Les Bois Park in Boise, Idaho on July 15, 2006, the race track where he rode his first thoroughbred winner Lil Star in 1979. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the week of July 10th, 2006, to be: GARY STEVENS WEEK in Idaho.
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WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great
Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 10th day of July in
the year of our Lord two thousand and six, and of the independence of the United
States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the
one hundred seventeenth. 
