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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 Thoroughbred horse racing, a United States National Champion Jockey by earnings or a United States National Champion Jockey by earnings during the calendar year.
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.
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In Thoroughbred horse racing a Champion jockey is the jockey who has won the most races in a particular season in a particular country. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Over his 34-year career, he is the 15th winningest jockey, with 6,384 races won. In terms of monetary winnings, he is also 15th all time, having earned $195,881,170 in his career. In 2006 Delahoussaye wrote the preface to Santa Anita Morning Rhapsody, by photographer-author Karen S. Davis, a book that documents morning thoroughbred racetrack ...
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.