Word: longden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only other jockeys to have ridden more winners: Britain's Sir Gordon Richards, the U.S.'s Johnny Longden and Eddie Arcaro...
...After 30 years on the track and more winners (5,090) than any jockey on record, Johnny Longden got the shortest and roughest ride of his career from a maiden filly named Royal Zaca at Del Mar. When his mount reared, Johnny was pinned against the starting gate and set down for the rest of the season with a broken...
...Coaxed on by the cunning hands of Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Bold Ruler of the Wheatley. Stables barely outnosed Calumet Farms' Gen. Duke to take the $131,400 Flamingo Stakes at Miami's Hialeah. Across the continent at California's Santa Anita Park, Jockey Johnny Longden, 47, who has won more races than any other rider past or present, booted home his 5,000th winner, genially shrugged off questions about retirement...
...useful sprinter named Big Rush romped off with the fifth race at California's Del Mar race track one day last week and paid $15.70 for $2. Even those outdoor investors who had backed the wrong horse cheered the result. For Johnny Longden, the wrinkled little jock on board the winner, had just won his 4,8705th race and thus tied Sir Gordon Richards' alltime record for riding race winning thoroughbreds. Less than two hours later, Johnny won again. He picked up a big horse named Arrogate and heaved him under the wire...
...Santa Anita, Jockey Johnny Longden had a hard time handling Rex Ells worth's colt Swaps, but booted him to the wire, winner by half a length in the Santa Anita Derby, West Coast preview for Kentucky Derby hopefuls...