Don Brumfield

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Don Brumfield
Occupation: Jockey
Birthplace: Kentucky, United States
Birth date: 1938 (age 70)
Career wins: 4,573
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Spinster Stakes(1964)

Kentucky Oaks (1966)
Florida Derby (1968)
Breeders' Futurity Stakes (1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1979)
Ashland Stakes (1974, 1974,1984)
Acorn Stakes (1977)
Apple Blossom Handicap (1978)
Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes (1980)
Diana Handicap (1980)
Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes (1988)

American Classic Race wins:
Kentucky Derby (1966)
Preakness Stakes (1966)
Racing Awards
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1988)
Honours
United States' Racing Hall of Fame (1996)
Significant Horses
Kauai King , Forward Pass, Northernette

Don Brumfield is an American jockey from Kentucky. [1]

During his thirty-five year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. [2] He retired from racing in 1989. [3] Brumfield is the "track all-time leading rider in terms of races won (925)" at Churchill Downs, [4] where he won 16 riding titles. [5] Brumfield rode Kauai King to victory in the 1966 Kentucky Derby.

He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1996.

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  1. ^ "Crown for a King" Time Magazine, Friday, May 13, 1966.
  2. ^ "In Honor of Hall of Famers, Sir Cat Triumphs" By Joseph Durso. The New York Times, August 6, 1996
  3. ^ “SPORTS PEOPLE; Brumfield Retires” The New York Times, September 24, 1989
  4. ^ Kentucky Derby website
  5. ^ "In Honor of Hall of Famers, Sir Cat Triumphs" by Joseph Durso, The New York Times, August 6, 1996

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