Sandy Hawley

Sandy Hawley is a Canadian Hall of Fame jockey, born Desmond Sandford Hawley in Oshawa, Ontario, on 16 April 1949. He rode his first race at Woodbine at nineteen, was the first jockey to lead the Canadian standings as an apprentice, and in 1969 rode 230 winners, the most of any apprentice in North America. In the United States he led all jockeys in victories in 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1976, and in 1973 he became the first jockey to win 500 races in one year. He won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1976, the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1973 and 1976, and the Queen's Plate four times. His best Kentucky Derby result was two third-place finishes, one with Golden Act in 1979. He is a Member of the Order of Canada.