Which jockey has ridden the winner of the Eclipse Stakes the most times, seven between 1951 and 1977?
"against older horses in the Lockinge Stakes over one mile at Newbury Racecourse. Ridden by the Australian jockey Ron Hutchinson, he started at odds of 10/1 and won by one and a half lengths from a strong field which included, Jimmy Reppin (Sussex Stakes), Tower Walk (Nunthorpe Stakes), Lorenzaccio and Wolver Hollow (Eclipse Stakes). In June at Royal Ascot, Habitat was matched against the 2000 Guineas winner Right Tack in the St. James's Palace Stakes. Ridden by Lester Piggott, he was beaten half a length by the classic winner in a rough and unsatisfactory race which resulted in Piggott receiving"
"to create the Eclipse Award. From 1953 through 1978 it was awarded to male or female horses although the only female champion was Dahlia in 1974. In 1979 an individual category was created for each of the sexes. Starting with the 2015 Eclipse Awards it is no longer possible for a Champion Male Turf Horse to also win Champion Older Male Horse, as the latter category is now restricted to horses proficient in dirt or main track races. The last such winner of both awards was Main Sequence in 2014. Most wins: Most wins by a trainer: Most wins by"
"of General Owen Williams, a co-founder of Sandown Park. The Eclipse Stakes was contested by high-quality fields from its inception. It was won by Ayrshire, the previous year's Derby winner, in 1889. The first three finishers in 1903 — Ard Patrick, Sceptre and Rock Sand — had won seven Classics between them. The race has been sponsored by Coral since 1976, and it is now familiarly known as the ""Coral-Eclipse"". The most recent Classic winner to achieve victory was Golden Horn in 2015. Most successful horse (2 wins): Leading jockey (7 wins): Leading trainer (6 wins): Leading owner (5 wins):"
"Eclipse (horse) Eclipse (1 April 1764 – 26 February 1789) was an undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King's Plates. After retiring from racing he became a very successful sire and today appears in the pedigree of most modern Thoroughbreds. Eclipse was foaled during and named after the solar eclipse of 1764, at the Cranbourne Lodge stud of his breeder, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. It was at this stud that his sire, the Jockey Club Plate winner Marske (by Squirt from The Ruby Mare) stood. His dam, Spilletta (foaled 1749), was by Regulus,"
"Eclipse won seven races during his career and raced mostly at Newmarket. His most important win was in the 1781 Derby. He retired to stud in 1785 after he injured a fetlock during his last race. The second Derby Stakes was run on 24 May 1781 with a field of thirteen horses. The betting favorite was John Lade's colt Crop at odds of 5 to 4 with odds on Young Eclipse at 10 to 1. Young Eclipse won the race, with Crop finishing second and Prince of Orange third. On 31 May at Epsom, he lost two £50 two-mile heats"
"Three years later, they were mated again: Eclipse was the result. ""Note: b. = Bay, ch. = Chestnut, br. = Brown"" <nowiki>*</nowiki> Eclipse was inbred 4 × 4 to Snake. This means that the stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree. Eclipse (horse) Eclipse (1 April 1764 – 26 February 1789) was an undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King's Plates. After retiring from racing he became a very successful sire and today appears in the pedigree of most modern Thoroughbreds. Eclipse was foaled during and named after the solar eclipse of"
"by a jockey: Most wins by a trainer: Eclipse Stakes (Canada) The Eclipse Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Held during the second half of May, the Grade II race is open to horses, four-years of age and older. It is contested over a distance of miles (8.5 furlongs) on Polytrack synthetic dirt and currently offers a purse of $153.450. Inaugurated as the Eclipse Handicap at Toronto's Greenwood Raceway in 1956, it was moved to Woodbine Racetrack in 1967. Since inception, it has been contested at various distances: Speed record: Most"
"Eclipse Stakes The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of 1 mile, 1 furlongs and 209 yards (2,002 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early July. The event is named after Eclipse, a celebrated 18th-century racehorse. It was established in 1886, and the inaugural running was won by Bendigo. At that time, it was Britain's richest ever race. The prize fund of £10,000 was donated by Leopold de Rothschild at the request"
"the Year. He was the first horse to win all three awards since John Henry in 1981. In the 2013 rankings, Wise Dan was given a rating of 129, making him the third-best racehorse in the world, the best miler, and the best racehorse in North America. He repeated his successes of the previous year in the Eclipse Awards for 2013, being voted Champion Male Turf Horse, Champion Older Male, and Horse of the Year. Charles LoPresti Charles LoPresti (born September 21, 1957) is an American race horse trainer best known as trainer of two-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner and"
"Mesh Tenney Meshach A. ""Mesh"" Tenney (November 16, 1907 - November 6, 1993) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer. From Arizona, Tenney began his career as a Thoroughbred trainer in the western United States in 1935. He won the Santa Anita Derby three times (1955, 1956, 1963) and was the leading money-winning trainer in the United States in 1962 and 1963. Tenney is best remembered as the trainer of Swaps, who won the 1955 Kentucky Derby and the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year in 1956. He also trained Candy Spots, who won the 1963 Preakness Stakes and finished"
"Eclipse Stakes (twice), Champion Stakes and Sussex Stakes. As well as Classic success on Shirley Height and Fair Salinia, Starkey landed the 1964 Oaks on Homeward Bound and the 2,000 Guineas on To-Agori-Mou in 1981 and Dancing Brave in 1986. He rode a century of winners on 4 occasions (1978, 1982, 1983 and 1986), each time finishing 4th in the flat jockeys table, with a personal best of 107 in 1978. Starkey was champion apprentice in 1957 and retired from racing at the end of the 1989 season. Starkey died of cancer at the age of 70 at his home"
"won seven races, four of those races being Grade I events, before losing by a nose to champion racemare Beholder in The Breeders' Cup Distaff. She was awarded her second eclipse award, winning the top three-year-old filly honor. Jerry Hollendorfer Jerry Hollendorfer (born June 18, 1946 in Akron, Ohio) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer whose notable horses include Eclipse Award winners Blind Luck, Shared Belief and Songbird. He has the most wins in the history of Northern California race horse trainers. In 2011, he was inducted into the US Racing Hall of Fame. Hollendorfer grew up on the outskirts"
"Eclipse Stakes (Canada) The Eclipse Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Held during the second half of May, the Grade II race is open to horses, four-years of age and older. It is contested over a distance of miles (8.5 furlongs) on Polytrack synthetic dirt and currently offers a purse of $153.450. Inaugurated as the Eclipse Handicap at Toronto's Greenwood Raceway in 1956, it was moved to Woodbine Racetrack in 1967. Since inception, it has been contested at various distances: Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by an owner: Most wins"
"major figures in Thoroughbred racing since the early part of the 20th century. This race, which was inaugurated in 1969 at Liberty Bell Park in Northeast Philadelphia before thoroughbred racing moved to the then-Keystone Racetrack (later known as Philadelphia Park) in nearby Bensalem in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has produced multiple Eclipse Award winners including Shuvee, Susan's Girl, Revidere, Ashado, Havre de Grace and Untapable. Speed record: Most wins by a jockey: Most wins by a trainer: Most wins by an owner: † In 1987, Sacahuista won the race but was disqualified for interference and set back to second. † In"
"Eclipse Award The Eclipse Award is an American thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th century British racehorse and sire, Eclipse. The Eclipse Awards were created by three independent bodies in 1971 to honor the champions of the sport. Although widely viewed as a national standard, they are not an official national award as Thoroughbred racing in the United States has no sport governing body. Rather, the Eclipse Awards are sponsored by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association who select all finalists at the end of the year. Those same"
"horses to win the award consecutively since the Eclipse Awards began in 1971. Curlin covered 131 mares in the 2009 breeding season. The first foal by Curlin, a filly out of Zophie (Hawkster), was born on January 12, 2010. She was euthanized on January 29 after a paddock accident. Among other mares, Curlin was bred to the 2009 American Horse of the Year, Rachel Alexandra. During the broadcast of the 2011 Kentucky Derby, it was announced that Rachel Alexandra was expecting a foal, due around February 2012. A bay colt later named Jess's Dream was born on January 22, 2012"
"career victory and his second Horse of the Year title. The final time of 2:13 equaled the track record for 1⅜ mile. John Henry was a late entry into the Inaugural Breeders Cup in 1984 but a strained ligament in his left foreleg caused him to be withdrawn from the race and retired. John Henry's final race record stood at 83 starts, 39 wins, 15 seconds, and 9 thirds with $6,591,860 in earnings. He was twice voted the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year in 1981 and 1984; 1981 being the first unanimous election of the winner. That feat"
"win in the Eclipse Stakes. After his retirement from racing he had steady success as a breeding stallion. He died in 1987. Connaught was a ""big, burly, immensely powerful"" bay horse with a white blaze and white socks on his hind legs bred in the United Kingdom by his owner Jim Joel. He was sired by St. Paddy the winner of The Derby and St. Leger Stakes in 1960. His dam Nagaika won the Solario Stakes as a two-year-old in 1956 and was bought by Joel a year later. As a broodmare she had already produced Court Sentence, who won"
"Young Eclipse Young Eclipse (1778 – c. 1803) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1781 Epsom Derby. He raced until he was six years old, winning seven races and retiring to stud in 1785. He was not a successful sire. Young Eclipse was foaled in 1778 and was bred by Dennis O'Kelly, who owned his sire Eclipse and stood him at his Clay Hill Stud farm near Epsom for a 50-guinea per mare stud fee. O'Kelly was an Irish immigrant who had made his fortune through professional gambling, Eclipse's stud fees and the profits of a brothel run by"
"The race was not run from 1915-1918 because of World War I and from 1940-1945 because of World War II<br> <br> Eclipse Stakes The Eclipse Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older. It is run at Sandown Park over a distance of 1 mile, 1 furlongs and 209 yards (2,002 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early July. The event is named after Eclipse, a celebrated 18th-century racehorse. It was established in 1886, and the inaugural running was won by Bendigo. At that"
"José A. Santos José Adeón Santos León (born April 26, 1961, in Concepción, Chile) is a retired Chilean thoroughbred jockey who has been honored by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in the United States. Jose Santos first raced horses at the Club Hípico de Concepción in his native Chile, following in the footsteps of his father and three of his seven brothers, and in Colombia before moving to the United States in 1984. There he was the top money-winning jockey four years in a row, from 1986 through 1989, winning the 1988 Eclipse Award for Outstanding"
"25 and then to 50 guineas a mare. During 1788, he was relocated to Cannons Stud, Edgware (Middlesex). Overall, Eclipse sired 344 winners of more than ₤158,000 (although the number varies with different reports, ranging from 325 to 400). ""s = stallion, m = mare"" Eclipse's daughters include Horatia, one of only twelve mares to produce two Derby winners: Archduke and Paris. She also produced two-time Doncaster Cup winner Stamford. Other daughters of Eclipse produced Derby winners John Bull and Skyscraper, and St. Leger winners Tartar, Remembrancer and Phoenomenon. Chanticleer, Haphazard, and Weasel are also noted as important runners out"
"after the great 18th-century English racehorse and sire, Eclipse, who did not begin racing until age five. He was undefeated in 18 starts, including eight walkovers. Eclipse sired the winners of 344 races, three of his get winning the Epsom Derby. The Eclipse Award Trophy was designed by acclaimed Lexington, Kentucky artist Adalin Wichman in 1971. Wichman based her bronze trophy on an 18th-century painting of Eclipse. Her husband, architect William Wichman, designed the award's walnut base. Ms. Wichman holds the Eclipse copyright and has produced each sculpture, working only with a few small selected American foundries with expertise in"
"but faced a stiffer challenge from Majestic Light this time. The two horses dueled throughout the final half of the race, before Johnny D. pulled clear in the last quarter-mile, winning by almost 4 lengths. His jockey for these later races was Steve Cauthen, who would become better known in 1978 for being the jockey of Triple Crown champion Affirmed. For his grass racing successes that fall, Johnny D. was named Champion Male Turf Horse at the Eclipse Awards. After his three-year-old campaign came to an end in 1977, Johnny D. suffered a string of injuries that proved difficult to"
"of Eclipse mares. Eclipse was never the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland, although he finished in second place 11 times, usually behind Herod. A book published in 1970 stated that the Royal Veterinary College had determined that nearly 80% of Thoroughbred racehorses had Eclipse in their pedigree. That percentage has naturally increased with time and the inevitable inbreeding in the Thoroughbred population. More recently it has been estimated that Eclipse is not only somewhere in the pedigree, but a tail-male ancestor of ""95pc of contemporary thoroughbreds"" or of ""nearly every living thoroughbred."" This modern dominance comes mainly through"
"Eclipse Award finalist every year from 2002 to 2007, and won at least one Grade 1 steeplechase race in each of those seasons. He was retired from racing at the end of 2007. In 2013, McDynamo was inducted into the National Museum of Racing & Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY. McDynamo holds the current U.S. Steeplechase record for earnings with $1,310,104. McDynamo McDynamo is a thoroughbred gelding (who was born in 1997) who is a five-time winner of the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Grand National Steeplechase at the Far Hills Races and a three-time honoree with the Eclipse"
"Canadian Sovereign and American Eclipse awards during his racing career and who became a very influential stallion. He was the Leading sire in North America in 1997 and 1998, and the Leading broodmare sire in North America in 2007. For 2006 only, the race was contested over seven and a half furlongs. Speed record: (at current distance of seven furlongs) Most wins by an owner: Most wins by a jockey: Most wins by a trainer: Deputy Minister Stakes The Deputy Minister Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. An Ontario Sire Stakes,"
"Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey on five occasions and was the United States' leading jockey seven times. In 1973, Pincay rode Sham, and together they won that year's Santa Anita Derby and placed second in the Wood Memorial behind Angle Light but ahead of their main rival, Secretariat. Sham was considered the best horse in the west, and they were second choice in the Kentucky Derby, once again behind Secretariat. Secretariat won the race, but Sham finished second, just 2/5 of a second behind. In the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, Sham was in striking distance in the stretch before losing"
"Leon rode Toonerville to a world record time of 1:51 2/5 for one and three sixteenth miles on turf in winning the second division of the Bougainvillea Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track. Gene St. Leon retired from race riding in 1989. He made brief comebacks in 1991 and 1999. Gene St. Leon Gene St. Leon (born c. 1955 in Hutchinson, Kansas) is a retired Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. In 1971 he was among the recipients of the newly created Eclipse Award program when he was voted that year's Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. He was inducted in Calder"
"in the 1977 Eclipse Stakes. At Royal Ascot in June, Gunner B started the 4/5 favourite for his second attempt to win the Prince of Wales's Stakes and won ""without difficulty"" from the Harry Wragg-trained gelding Fluellen and the Prix Messidor winner Malecite. In July, the horse faced a field which included Balmerino, Super Concorde, Radetzky (St James's Palace Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes) and Jellaby (Brigadier Gerard Stakes, Queen Anne Stakes) in the Group One Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. He was made the 7/4 second favourite behind Stradavinsky, a lightly-raced but highly regarded three-year-old trained by Vincent O'Brien. Mercer positioned"
"place in the Eclipse Stakes. Mossborough was much better as a sire than he was as a racehorse, siring good winners including Belmont Stakes winner Cavan and Epsom Oaks winner Noblesse. Ballymoss's dam, Indian Call, was well bred but almost useless as a racehorse and was sold in 1939 for 15 guineas. Ballymoss was sold by his breeder at the Doncaster yearling sales. He was bought for 4,500 guineas by Vincent O'Brien, known primarily as a leading trainer of steeplechasers, on behalf of American businessman John McShain, who operated Barclay Stable in New Jersey plus a racing operation in Ireland"
"Eclipse include Michael Church's ""Eclipse: The Horse, The Race, The Awards"" (2000), and Theodore Cook's 1907 book ""Eclipse and O'Kelly"". Contrary to popular belief, the Mitsubishi Eclipse was named for the racehorse, and not for the natural phenomenon. At the time of Eclipse's birth, stud records were maintained by the individual breeder with no central authority. Record-keeping was somewhat haphazard, compounded by spelling and transcription errors, and the fact that the names of mares were often not recorded. In 1791, James Weatherby and William Sydney Towers pieced together the General Stud Book, which is the source of the pedigree shown"
"retirement, he has worked as an exercise rider at Belmont Park. Some of the horses he has prepped include Lemon Drop Kid, Touch Gold, Sharp Humor, and Colonial Affair. George Martens (jockey) George Martens (born September 23, 1958) is a retired Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the 1981 Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. In 1976, George Martens was the top rated apprentice jockey in the United States, voted the Eclipse Award as the country's Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. In 1981 he earned the most important win"