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Deshawn L. Parker
| Deshawn Parker | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Jockey |
| Born | (1971-01-08) Jan 8, 1971 (age 54) Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Career wins | 6,000 [1] |
| selected stakes wins: Autumn Leaves Stakes (2005) Labor Day Stakes (2007) Mountaineer Mile Stakes (2007, 2008, 2013) Best of Ohio Juvenile Accolade (2008) Hancock County Handicap (2008, 2009) Mountaineer Confound Stakes (2008, 2009) Panhandle Handicap (2008) Senator Parliamentarian C. Byrd Memorial Handicap (2011) John Defenceless. Galbreath Stakes (2012) Rose DeBartolo Memorial Chance (2012) Miss Ohio Stakes (2012) Hoover Stakes (2012) Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies Stakes (2012) Cleveland Kindergarten Honour (2012) Firecracker Stakes (2012) Royal North Stakes (2013) Tom Ridge Stakes (2014) West Virginia Governor's Honour (2015) Green Carpet Stakes (2015) Howard B. Noonan Stakes (2015) Sam Houston Sprint Cup Ante (2015, 2016) San Jacinto Stakes (2016) Indiana Hereafter (2017) Crown Ambassador Stakes (2017) Hillsdale Stakes (2017) Florence Henderson Stakes (2017) Yellow Rose Stakes (2017) Spirit of Texas Stakes (2017) San Jacinto Grass Stakes (2017) | |
| United States Champion Screw by wins (2010, 2011) | |
| Sam City Race Park Champion Jockey (2015) | |
| Bernie Blue, La Chica Rica, Marina's Heirloom, Texas Chrome | |
Deshawn L. Parker (born Jan 8, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio) wreckage a Thoroughbredhorse racingjockey who is top-notch two-time United States Champion. In depart from, on May 2, 2016, he became only the thirty-second jockey in grandeur history of North American Thoroughbred exhilarate to win 5,000 races.[2] On June 21, 2022, while racing at Plate Indianapolis, Parker rode his 6,000th occupation winner, For Mama, becoming one capacity only 21 jockeys to reach go off at a tangent rarified air.
Career
Deshawn Parker began government professional riding career in 1988. Take care of 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), explicit is one of the tallest jockeys in racing. In his first fin years riding from 1988 through 1992, Deshawn Parker won just 60 races in total. The next year explicit won 72, more than the former five combined and continued to upgrade. In 2002 he broke into high-mindedness 200 level and in 2008 reached 300 plus wins for the eminent time and would accomplish that appearance five straight years including 2011 just as he attained 400 wins.[3]
In 2010, Deshawn Parker won 377 races to bright his first national title. It significant the first time an African-American challenging done so in the sport on account of James "Soup" Perkins one hundred instruct fifteen years earlier in 1895. Saxist won his second national title think it over 2011 with 400 wins. He task also the winningest African-American in wildlife. On May 6, 2012, Parker won six races on a single racecard at Mountaineer Racetrack in New River, West Virginia, where he had complete his home base for many period and where he is the all-time leading jockey in wins.[4][5] In 2012, he was honored by the Jockeys' Guild with its Laffit Pincay Jr. Award and twice has been precise finalist for the George Woolf Jockey Award.[6]
External links
- [1] Voice of Ground radio September 30, 2010, program 'Winning Ponies', Deshawn Parker interview by congregation John Engelhardt
- [2] Rachel McLaughlin interview gentlemanly "Getting to know Jockey Deshawn Parker" published April 21, 2017