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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
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.
Smith was born to George Smith, a one-time jockey, and Vidoll Vallejos in New Mexico; his mother was 19 years old at the time. Smith's parents divorced when he was 8 years old. [ 4 ] Smith spent most of his youth on his maternal grandparents' horse farm where he began breaking horses at eight years old.
In addition to the prestige of being the top pick (there have been only 84 No. overall picks), there's a huge financial windfall. Even with the implementation of a rookie salary cap after the 2010 ...
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 ...
Even with the implementation of a rookie salary cap after the 2010 season, the No. 1 NFL draft picks since 2000 have made an average of $95,575,781. ... career earnings of every top NFL pick since ...
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.
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.