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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
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]
[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 ]
The previous record was set by Sandy Hawley in 1973 with 515 wins in a year. He was introduced to the sport of thoroughbred racing by his older brother, jockey Gregg McCarron . Chris McCarron began riding professionally in 1974 at East Coast racetracks where he won the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in the United States.
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"
This article contains two charts: The first chart is a list of the top 50 all-time scorers in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The list includes only points scored in regular season games. The second chart is a progressive list of the leading all-time NBA scorers. [1] LeBron James is the leading scorer in NBA history.
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.