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In 1952, Anthony DeSpirito won 390 races, breaking Walter Miller's forty-six-year-old record of 388. 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.
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: 684 144 $79,843 1913 Merritt C. Buxton: 887 146 $82,552 1914 Joe McCahey: 824 155 $121,845 1915 Mack Garner: 775 151 $96,628 1916 John McTaggart: 832 150 $155,055 1917 Frank ...
Velazquez set a Saratoga record with six wins in one day on September 3, 2001. [10] In 2004, Velazquez earned his 3,000th win aboard Runningforpresident on July 29 at Saratoga, the same date that Saratoga was holding "John Velazquez Bobblehead Doll Day". He was the leading rider at the Saratoga meet that year with a record 65 winners.
In Thoroughbred horse racing, a United States National Champion Jockey by earnings or a United States National Champion Jockey by earnings during the calendar year. Pages in category "American Champion jockeys"
The NBA Finals is the championship series for the NBA and the conclusion of the sport's postseason. The winning team of the series receives the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy. Players from the winning team usually receive championship rings from the team honoring their contribution, with "rings" becoming shorthand for championships. [3]
In 1951, he won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. At the age of 19, he was making so much money (as much as $2,500 each week) the Los Angeles Superior Court appointed attorney Horace Hahn as his guardian, with the consent of his parents. [2] Thirty years later, he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States.
Regarded as one of the world's all-time greatest jockeys, Bailey's mounts won 5,894 races and more than $296 million during a 31-year riding career, second only to jockey Pat Day at the time of Bailey's retirement. [1] [5] At the time of his retirement in January 2006, he ranked No. 2 on the career North American money list and still ranks No. 3.
Steve Cauthen (born May 1, 1960) is a retired American jockey. In 1977 he became the first jockey to win over $6 million in a year working with agent Lenny Goodman, [4] and in 1978 he became the youngest jockey to win the U. S. Triple Crown. Cauthen is the only jockey ever named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. [5]