Equibase | All Time Leaders (2024)

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Who has the most career wins as a jockey? ›

Russell Baze concluded a remarkable 42-year career in June of 2016 with 12,842 career wins, more than any jockey in North American racing history. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Baze began his professional riding career in 1974 at the age of 16. He won his first race on Oct.

The record for most wins for a jockey on one North American program was set on June 4, 2005, when Eddie Castro won with nine of 11 mounts on a 13-race card at Calder. The late Chris Antley also won nine in one day in 1987, riding four at Aqueduct in the afternoon and five more that night at the Meadowlands.

Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003 and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 27 victories.

Jack Andrews, 25, from Warwickshire, rose to fame last year when he was billed as the tallest jockey in the world during his appearance at the festival, but this week has a rival for the title – Thomas Costello, from County Clare in Ireland.

As noted by CNBC in 2019, jockeys receive a 10% cut of the winning payout for the Kentucky Derby.

On 28 September 1996 Dettori achieved a remarkable feat when he "went through the card", riding all seven winners at the British Festival of Racing (a precursor to British Champions Day) at Ascot racecourse.

1. Sir Gordon Richards. Often considered the greatest jockey of all time, Gordon Richards rode 4,870 winners between 1921 and 1954, winning the flat jockeys' championship 26 times.

Who was the winningest jockey of all time? ›

Russell Baze

as jockey with most career wins, has built his fame on a solid base of seemingly impossible achievements. Still an active jockey today, Baze began his career as a sixteen-year-old riding at Yakima Racetrack in Walla Walla, Washington, winning his first race there in autumn 1974.

The record for the most wins by a jockey in the Kentucky Derby is held by Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack, who have each won the race five times.

During his illustrious 23-year career, McCoy rode 4,358 winners – the most winners by any Jump jockey, making him one of the most famous jockeys of all time.

Lester Piggott's greatness transcended statistics, but he accumulated some of the most important records for a British jockey, notably the most wins in a career, the most British Classics (30) and the most Derbys (nine).

With five Kentucky Derby wins apiece, jockeys Eddie Arcaro and Bill Hartack share the record for most Derbies won over the course of a career.