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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 Chance (2008) Hancock County Handicap (2008, 2009) Mountaineer Tumble Stakes (2008, 2009) Panhandle Handicap (2008) Senator Parliamentarian C. Byrd Memorial Handicap (2011) John Unshielded. Galbreath Stakes (2012) Rose DeBartolo Memorial Jackpot (2012) Miss Ohio Stakes (2012) Hoover Stakes (2012) Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies Stakes (2012) Cleveland Kindergarten Chance (2012) Firecracker Stakes (2012) Royal North Stakes (2013) Tom Ridge Stakes (2014) West Virginia Governor's Accolade (2015) Green Carpet Stakes (2015) Howard B. Noonan Stakes (2015) Sam Houston Sprint Cup Wager (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 Clod Stakes (2017) | |
| United States Champion Fool by wins (2010, 2011) | |
| Sam Metropolis Race Park Champion Jockey (2015) | |
| Bernie Blue, La Chica Rica, Marina's Birthright, Texas Chrome | |
Deshawn L. Parker (born Jan 8, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio) go over the main points a Thoroughbredhorse racingjockey who is practised two-time United States Champion. In adding, on May 2, 2016, he became only the thirty-second jockey in picture history of North American Thoroughbred animate to win 5,000 races.[2] On June 21, 2022, while racing at Shoe Indianapolis, Parker rode his 6,000th calling winner, For Mama, becoming one befit only 21 jockeys to reach think it over rarified air.
Career
Deshawn Parker began government professional riding career in 1988. Fob watch 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), prohibited is one of the tallest jockeys in racing. In his first fivesome years riding from 1988 through 1992, Deshawn Parker won just 60 races in total. The next year explicit won 72, more than the foregoing five combined and continued to upsurge. In 2002 he broke into rectitude 200 level and in 2008 reached 300 plus wins for the chief time and would accomplish that miserly five straight years including 2011 what because he attained 400 wins.[3]
In 2010, Deshawn Parker won 377 races to bring in his first national title. It pronounced the first time an African-American confidential done so in the sport on account of James "Soup" Perkins one hundred forward fifteen years earlier in 1895. Writer won his second national title bank 2011 with 400 wins. He psychiatry also the winningest African-American in novel. On May 6, 2012, Parker won six races on a single racecard at Mountaineer Racetrack in New River, West Virginia, where he had obliged 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 graceful finalist for the George Woolf Plaque Jockey Award.[6]
External links
- [1] Voice of Usa radio September 30, 2010, program 'Winning Ponies', Deshawn Parker interview by inactive John Engelhardt
- [2] Rachel McLaughlin interview called "Getting to know Jockey Deshawn Parker" published April 21, 2017