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1962: Ten thousand fans
attended a ceremony at Tropical Park in honor of Carry
Back's retirement. By Saggy out of Joppy, Carry Back was
known as "the people's horse." He retired after 55 starts
and earnings of more than $1 million. |
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1982: In the first race to feature mother
and daughter jockeys, Patti Barton rode against her
daughter, Leah, at Latonia. Patti finished fifth aboard
Tam's Angel while Leah was tenth on Diane's Ms. Lolly.
2002: Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey
broke his own single-season North American earnings mark
after finishing third aboard Royal Gem in the Hollywood
Derby at Hollywood Park. His total purse earnings of
$19,032,509 propelled him past his 2001 total of
$19,015,720. 2 - 1936:
Fair Grounds, New Orleans, La., licensed its first female
trainer, Miss Meryl Eckhardt of Flint, Mich. |
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1997: Jockey Russell Baze became
the 12th rider in Thoroughbred racing history to win 6,000
races when he won the fourth race at Golden Gate Fields
aboard Clover Hunter. |
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2001: Jockey Russell Baze gained his 400th victory of the
year aboard Golden Peace at Golden Gate Fields, marking the
ninth time in his career he had reached the 400-win plateau
in a single year. No other rider has recorded 400 victories
in a year more than three times. Baze, whose best total was
448 in 1995, won 400 races for seven straight years from
1992-98. A broken bone in his back limited his victory count
to 373 in 1999. Baze then bounced back with 412 victories in
2000. |
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1957: A two-year-old colt named Silky Sullivan won the
one-mile Golden Gate Futurity after making up 27 lengths,
establishing a running style that became legendary. Horsemen
still invoke the name of Silky Sullivan when referring to a
horse that runs from far off the pace. |
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1989: Power to Geaux paid a record $2,922 for a $2 wager
made at AK-sar-ben on the simulcast of the 11th race from
Fair Grounds. The previous record for a payoff on a $2 wager
was set June 17, 1912, when Wishing Ring paid $1,885.50. |
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1788 - George
Washington sold his race horse, Magnolia, to Colonel Henry
Lee. Washington reportedly got 5,000 acres of Kentucky
farmland, while Colonel Lee got 8-1 odds...
1999: Jockey Laffit Pincay, Jr., tied
Bill Shoemaker's all-time record by registering his 8,833rd
lifetime win aboard I Be Casual in the 4th race at Hollywood
Park. |
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1977: In his second year of riding, Steve Cauthen became the
first jockey to win $6 million in a single season when he
rode a three-year-old filly, Little Happiness, to victory in
the sixth race at Aqueduct. Cauthen was dubbed "The Six
Million Dollar Man," and "Stevie Wonder" by his admirers and
was named 1977 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated,
the Associated Press, ABC's Wide World of Sports and The
Sporting News. He also received three Eclipse Awards, being
voted an award of merit in addition to earning top honors as
both a journeyman and apprentice jockey.
1999: Laffit Pincay Jr. became the
world's winningest jockey when he registered his 8,834th
career victory aboard Irish Nip in the 6th race at Hollywood
Park. The victory eclipsed the previous mark of 8,833 wins
held by Bill Shoemaker. |
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1983: John Henry became the first racehorse to surpass $4
million in career earnings when he won the Hollywood Turf
Cup with jockey Chris McCarron at Hollywood Park. |
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1942: More than 20,000 racegoers turned out to watch 1941
Triple Crown winner Whirlaway win the inaugural Louisiana
Handicap at Fair Grounds, staged in part as a war relief
effort by the newly formed Thoroughbred Racing Associations
1997: Jockey Russell Baze, the only
jockey to win 400 or more races in a year more than three
times, accomplished the feat for a sixth straight season at
Golden Gate Fields. |
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1986: Jockey Kent Desormeaux had his first career stakes
win, aboard Godbey, in the Maryland City Handicap at Laurel. |
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1997: Maybe Jack drew off and won a match race against Pro
on Ice at Suffolk Downs, making him the winningest horse of
1997 with 13 victories. |
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1973: Sandy Hawley became the first jockey in history to win
500 races in a single year when he rode Charlie Jr. to
victory in the third race at Laurel. |
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1936: Crooner Bing Crosby announced
plans to construct a new racetrack, to be called the Del Mar
Turf Club. 1993:
Fire destroyed the grandstand of Fair Grounds, the nation's
third-oldest racetrack. |
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1983: Hollywood Park held the first $1
million race for two-year-old Thoroughbreds, the Hollywood
Futurity, which was won by Fali Time, ridden by Sandy Hawley |
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1987: D. Wayne Lukas-trained Tejano
became the first juvenile millionaire when he won the
Hollywood Futurity with Laffit Pincay Jr. aboard. |
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1944 - Horse racing was banned in the United States until
after World War II. |
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1991: Jockey Kent Desormeaux, at age 21,
won his 2,000th race aboard Saron Lake, trained by Gary
Jones, at Hollywood Park. He was the youngest jockey to
reach that mark and did so faster than any other rider. |
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1944: James F. Byrnes, Director of War
Mobilization and Reconversion, urged that all racing in the
United States cease by Jan. 3 as a means of furthering the
war effort. |
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1934: Santa Anita Park
opened in Arcadia, Calif. A five-year-old mare, Las Palmas,
won the inaugural race, the California-Bred Handicap, before
a crowd of 30,777. |
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2002: Julie Krone became the first woman
to ride the winner of a Grade I stakes race in the state of
California when she piloted the reformed claimer Debonair
Joe to victory in the Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita. |
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birthday 1940 - Jerry Lambert (horse jockey)
1982: English trainer Michael
Dickinson saddled 12 winners, a record.
1987: D. Wayne Lukas set a
single-season record for stakes wins by a trainer, 92, when
he saddled High Brite to win the Palos Verdes Handicap at
Santa Anita Park. |
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1950 - Willie Shoemaker and Joe Culmone, both 19 years of
age, became the first jockeys to ride 388 winners in a
single year.
1953 - Willie Shoemaker broke his own record as he won
his 485th race of the year. Willie got his horse’s nose
out in front at Santa Anita racetrack in Southern
California. 1966: Ogden
Phipps' Buckpasser, trained by Eddie Neloy, won the 13th
consecutive race of his three-year-old season after taking
the Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita Park. He was voted Horse of
the Year and also took top three-year-old and handicap horse
honors for 1966. 1989: Jockey
Kent Desormeaux set the world record for most number of wins
in a single season, 598, when he rode two-year-old East
Royalty, trained by Phil Thomas Jr., to victory in the tenth
race, the Inner Harbor Stakes, at Laurel. He surpassed the
old record, set by Chris McCarron, by 52. |
