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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.
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 Robinson ...
In 2004 and 2005 he was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings and both years was given the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey. He was inducted into the Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2012, rode his 5,000th winner in 2013, and became the leading money-earning jockey in the history of the sport in 2014.
Desormeaux was a member of the local 4-H club, and was first exposed to race-riding at age 12. "The bush tracks were all around us, and our dad decided he might want to delve into horse racing and bought a bush track Acadiana Downs," explained his brother. "We lived in an agricultural area but we weren't farmers.
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.
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.
In 2004, Rafael Bejarano got his big break when he was the United States Champion Jockey by wins with 455. [1] As part of his 2004 success, on March 12 at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky he won seven races on a single race card and ended the meet with a track-record 196 wins.
[a] NBA win-loss records also do not include wins and losses recorded during a team's playing time in the American Basketball Association (ABA), despite the 1976 ABA–NBA merger. [ 2 ] The San Antonio Spurs have the highest win-loss record percentage, with 2,305–1,562 (.596). [ 3 ]