Christopher Wiley Antley, born on 6 January 1966 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and raised in Elloree, South Carolina, was an American National Champion jockey who left school at sixteen to ride at Pimlico Race Course. At eighteen he was the United States champion jockey by wins with 469, and in 1987 he became the first rider to win nine races on nine different horses in a single day. He won the Kentucky Derby on Strike the Gold in 1991 and, in 1999, the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes on Charismatic. Antley died on 2 December 2000 in Pasadena, California, and was announced for induction into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2015.
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was an American National Champion and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey
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He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and grew up in Elloree, South Carolina.
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was an American National Champion and U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey
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they won that year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes
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they won that year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes
Competed In: Belmont Stakes, Biography, 1999 Belmont
In the 1999 Belmont Stakes, Charismatic finished third
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