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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 ...
The Longines World's Best Jockey [3] is named each December. The top 100 Group 1 and Grade 1 races serve as the base of this annual competition to recognize top jockeys throughout the world. Frankie Dettori has won the award four times, as he was named the Longines World's Best Jockey in 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
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.
In 1997, at age 27, he was the youngest jockey to surpass $100 million in career earnings. [5] During the mid-nineties, Desormeaux gradually gained a reputation of not listening to trainers. "There is no doubt that I was on top of the world", Desormeaux said. "No one needed to tell me how to ride a horse. I became very irresponsible with rides.
In 2020, the average earnings of the top 100 jockeys in the United States was around $3.5 million, BloodHorse reported. Daria Uhlig contributed to the reporting for this article. Information is ...
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After 28 years in racing he retired in June 2002. He finished as thoroughbred racing's ALL-TIME leader in purse earnings with more than $264 million in winnings and 7,141 races won. He won about 21% of the races he rode, a percentage that only 5 jockeys have ever held.