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Jockey Kent Desormeaux Picks Up 5,000th Win

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Jul 27, 2008 4:03 pm US/Mountain

Jockey Kent Desormeaux Picks Up 5,000th Win

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) ― Jockey Kent Desormeaux rode his 5,000th winner.

The milestone came aboard favored Bella Attrice in the seventh race at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday.

Desormeaux has ridden three Kentucky Derby winners, including Big Brown this year. He won riding titles in California, Maryland and Japan during a career he began as a teenager at the bush tracks in his native Louisiana.

He won Eclipse Awards as the nation's outstanding rider in 1989 and 1992 and another as the nation's leading apprentice jockey in 1987.

Russell Baze is North America's winningest thoroughbred jockey. In February, he became the first to reach 10,000 wins.

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