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Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux recorded his 5,000th win aboard favored Bella Attrice in the 7th race at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday, July 27, and became the 23rd jockey to reach the 5,000-win mark.
“I’m in awe of the number. Five thousand. Wow!” jockey Kent Desormeaux said.
The 38-year-old jockey Kent Desormeaux said his two most memorable wins were his first (aboard Miss Tavern at Evangeline Downs on July 13, 1986) and his first victory in the Kentucky Derby (aboard Real Quiet in 1998).
It has been an eventful year for jockey Kent Desormeaux, who guided Big Brown to wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. But after the colt finished last in the Belmont Stakes, Desormeaux was criticized by race horse trainer Rick Dutrow Jr.
A three-time Eclipse Award winner as the nation’s top jockey, Kent Desormeaux began his riding career in his native Louisiana in 1986. Nine years later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest jockey to reach 3,000 wins. Kent Desormeaux won his 4,000th race at the age of 30.
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