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Year: Jockey: Mounts: Wins: Earnings: 1908 Joe Notter: 872 249 $464,322 1910 Carroll H. Shilling: 506 172 $176,030 1911 Ted Koerner: 813 162 $88,308 1912 James Butwell
On December 15, 1973, Sandy Hawley became the first jockey in history to win 500 races in a single year. In 1989, Kent Desormeaux set the current record for wins in a single calendar year with 598. With ten championships, Russell Baze has won the title more than any other jockey.
Win number 8,833, Shoemaker's last, came at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Florida, on January 20, 1990, aboard Beau Genius. Two weeks later, on February 3, Shoemaker rode his last race on Patchy Groundfog, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. He finished fourth, in front of a record crowd, to Eddie Delahoussaye, on Exemplary Leader. All ...
Brian Hernandez Jr. will need a minute to digest his signature victory in the 150th Kentucky Derby. Maybe even more time since the milestone derby capped the best weekend of a jockey career spent ...
By JOHN DORN Jockey Victor Espinoza has always donated 10 percent of his race winnings to cancer foundation City of Hope. But after winning the first horse racing Triple Crown since 1978 atop ...
Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003 and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 27 victories. [2]
He’s 3 for 25 in the Derby, winning with Animal Kingdom (2011), Always Dreaming (2017) and Authentic (2020). Record: 3-0-1 in five starts Career earnings: $1,703,850
John R. Velazquez (born November 24, 1971) is a Puerto Rican jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his career in Puerto Rico and moved to New York in 1990. In 2004 and 2005 he was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings and both years was given the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey.