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- to ride until he was 58
- years old. During that
- time, he rode more
- mounts (40,350) and won
- more stakes races (1,009)
- than any other jockey. He once won a record
- 485 races in one season!
-
- Although he never rode a Triple Crown
- winner, Willie did win the Kentucky Derby
- four times, the Preakness twice, and the
- Belmont Stakes five times.
-
- Willie survived many falls as a jockey, but
- his worst injury came after he had quit
- riding. On April 8, 1991, he was paralyzed
- from the chest down when the car he was
- driving ran off the road and crashed.
- Although now confined to a wheelchair,