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After four years way from riding, he returned to the saddle in the summer of 2011, beginning his comeback at Ellis Park, before moving on to
Keeneland, Churchill Downs and the Tampa Bay Downs winter meet. He picked up his riding in the spring of 2012 full-time at the Louisiana Downs spring/summer
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On April 25, 1992, he equaled a record by winning four stakes on a single card as part of a six win day on a card at
Sportsman's Park, including the National Jockey Club Handicap on Stalwars and three other stakes wins — on Cu's Gig, Take that Step and Zend to Aiken. His four stakes wins that day
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In 2001, he rode Todd
Pletcher's Balto Star to victories in the Arkansas Derby and Lane's End Stakes. In 2002, he set a course record at Churchill Downs on board Island Echo winning a five-furlong turf allowance sprint in 55.91 seconds for trainer Bill Mott.
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Forever, a 47-1 shot, to a come from behind victory in the 132nd Kentucky Oaks. She was the longest shot to ever win the storied race for three-year-old fillies. That same year, he was voted the esteemed
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In 1994, he set a new single season riding record at
Hawthorne with 117 victories at the fall meet. He broke that record in 1995 with 137 wins. In 1997, Hawthorne Race Course voted him into their Racing Hall of Fame.
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In 2005, he won the Santa Anita Derby on
Buzzards Bay and rode him to a fifth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby. In the 2005 Breeders' Cup Classic, he guided 14-1 shot Perfect Drift to a closing third-place finish.
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Hickory Stakes at Fairgrounds Race Course on board Honey Mark for trainer Larry Robideaux. He won the 1978 Delta Downs riding title.
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seven times, Sportsman's Park nine times, two times at
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