Gary Stevens rode the first winner of his comeback last night.
The American, who returned from retirement last Wednesday, won a one-mile maiden at Santa Anita on the D. Wayne Lukas-trained Brilliance - a son of Thunder Gulch on whom he won the 1995 Kentucky Derby.
'To win the first one back for Wayne on a Thunder Gulch baby makes it really special,' Stevens, 37, told the Thoroughbred Times.
'Wayne`s one of the main reasons I`ve had the kind of career I have.'
Stevens, who acted as Sir Michael Stoute`s stable jockey in Britain in 1999, quit the saddle last December due to chronic knee problems.
