Chris McCarron

Chris McCarron is a retired American thoroughbred jockey and Hall of Fame member, born on March 27, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts. Introduced to racing by his older brother, the jockey Gregg McCarron, he began riding professionally in 1974 and, in his first year, won 547 races, breaking the single-year record of 515 set by Sandy Hawley in 1973. He won the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey, moved to California in 1977 and won the 1980 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey along with the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. McCarron won nine Breeders' Cup races, five of them the Classic, and six American Triple Crown races. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1989 and retired in June 2002 with 7,141 wins and more than 264 million dollars in purse earnings.