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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.
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
Steve Cauthen (born May 1, 1960) is a retired American jockey. In 1977 he became the first jockey to win over $6 million in a year working with agent Lenny Goodman, [4] and in 1978 he became the youngest jockey to win the U. S. Triple Crown. Cauthen is the only jockey ever named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. [5]
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey (1989, 1992) United States Champion Jockey by wins (1987, 1988, 1989) United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1992) George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1993) JRA Award for Best Jockey (winning average) (2001) Honours; United States' Racing Hall of Fame (2004) Significant horses
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 1930, Sonny Workman was both the United States Champion Jockey by earnings and Champion by total wins while achieving it with a 27% rate of wins to mounts. In 1932 he was the earnings leader a second time. On January 21, 1930, he was married to Marion Elizabeth Burch of Washington, D.C. [4]
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Jockey Victor Espinoza has always donated 10 percent of his race winnings to cancer foundation City of Hope. But after winning the ...
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.