Comeback jockey nets 4889th American win
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Comeback jockey Gary Stevens rode his 4889th winner in North America as well as his get-go since 2005 at the weekend, riding Branding to victory inwards the get-go race at Santa Anita inwards California.
His North American career totals, according to Equibase, the official database of North American racing information, instantly stand upward at: 27,598 starts, 4889 firsts, 4365 seconds, 3978 thirds as well as earnings of $221,252,824.
Stevens has likewise won 135 races inwards 6 other countries (England, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Nippon as well as the United Arab Emirates), which brings his career win amount to 5024.
Stevens has won all iii legs of the Triple Crown, as well as won the Kentucky Derby iii fourth dimension – amongst Silver Charm (1997), Thunder Gulch (1995) as well as Winning Colors (1988).
He was awarded the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1996, which honors riders whose careers as well as personal bear exemplifies the best event of participants inwards racing. In 1997, Stevens entered the National Museum of Racing as well as Hall of Fame and inwards 1998, he was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States. In 1999, he was voted the Mike Venezia Memorial Award for “extraordinary sportsmanship as well as citizenship”.
Stevens, who had 1 ride inwards 2008 for a 3rd placing, retired inwards 2005 as well as later on worked every bit a racing analyst for NBC Sports as well as cable exhibit TVG. He likewise worked every bit a commentator.
In 2009, he started preparation racehorses from Santa Anita with the assistance of his son, T.C. Stevens. Higher Incentive was his get-go winner that year. The side past times side year, he disbanded his 14-horse stable to concentrate on increased move inwards television.
Stevens played George Woolf in the 2003 motility film Seabiscuit, as well as likewise featured inwards the HBO serial Luck inwards 2011.
Stevens was born inwards Idaho, as well as he was honoured past times the solid reason when the Governor of Idaho, proclaimed the calendar week of July 10, 2006, to last Gary Stevens Week.
He turns l on March 6.
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