Despite the severity of his injuries, Desormeaux was back riding in six weeks and soon rebounded to his old form. "I think he answered all the questions with comeback rides" said fellow jockey Gary Stevens. "You've got to prove yourself all over again to your clients."" On January 23, Desormeaux would pick up the mount on Kotashaan. They proceeded to win five grade 1 races together, culminating in the 1993 Breeders' Cup Turf. At the end of the year his peers voted him the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.