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gary stevens at the 2013 preakness stakes august 22 , 2015 5100 50 uk , 20 hk 10 dubai , 3 jap + , 1 ire worldwide , incl. : 55 fr , caldwell , idaho , u.s. george award for outstanding jockey -lrb- 1998 -rrb- mike venezia memorial woolf award -lrb- 1999 -rrb- big sport of turfdom award -lrb- memorial 2013 -rrb- jockey award -lrb- 1996 -rrb- eclipse '' ` american classic race wins : '' ' united states racing hall of fame -lrb- 1997 -rrb- 6 march 1963 da victory gallop bertrando silverbulletday point given royal anthem fantastic light hoss rock hard ten serena 's song commentator oxbow beholder mucho winning macho man colors thunder gulch singspiel silver charm gary stevens preakness.jpg gary l. stevens
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gary l. stevens

gary lynn stevens -lrb- born march 6 , 1963 -rrb- is an american thoroughbred horse racing jockey , actor , and sports analyst .
he became a professional jockey in 1979 and rode his first of three kentucky derby winners in 1988 .
, he has also won the preakness stakes and belmont stakes three times each , as well as 10 breeders ' cup races and is a nine-time winner of the santa anita derby .
he entered the united states racing hall of fame in 1997 .
combining his u.s. and international wins , stevens had over 5,000 race wins by 2005 , and reached his 5,000 north american win on february 15 , 2015 .
his career successes were intertwined with significant injuries and periods of temporary retirement due to knee problems from 1999 until 2000 , and again from 2005 to 2013 .
he had an acting role in the 2003 film `` seabiscuit '' .
after his second retirement from riding in 2005 , he worked for tvg and then hrtv and nbc sports as a horse racing analyst for seven years , had a brief stint as a race horse trainer , and took a few other acting roles , notably in the tv series luck , before coming out of retirement again in 2013 .
in the 2013 season , he won 69 of 383 races and finished the year 12th in the nation in purse earnings , winning a number of significant races including the 2013 preakness stakes , the breeders ' cup distaff and the breeders ' cup classic .
in 2014 , he rode in the first half of the year , but his knee problems became too severe to continue riding , and in july he announced a `` break '' in order to get a total knee replacement .
he returned to riding by mid-october 2014 , accepted mounts for the 2014 breeders ' cup , and rode a winning race by mid-november 2014 .
