{"id":42,"date":"2006-09-07T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T20:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-09-08T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T17:38:57","slug":"gary-stevens-retired-but-still-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Gary Stevens: retired but still racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/stevens_gary_20060907.jpg\" \/>Retired Thoroughbred Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, 43, came full circle on Labor Day, as TVG commentator for the All American Quarter Horse Futurity at Ruidoso Down, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>As the son of a racehorse trainer, Stevens grew up around tracks in the Northwest and began racing Quarter Horses when he was barely a teen. A move to Southern California in the mid-1980\u2019s saw Stevens&#8217; career skyrocket on the Thoroughbred scene.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Stevens became the youngest rider to surpass $100 million in earnings. During his career, he won eight Triple Crown races, including the Kentucky Derby with Winning Colors, in 1988; Thunder Gulch, in 1995; and Silver Charm, in 1997. When he retired in 2005 with more than $230 million in earnings, Stevens counted a prestigious Eclipse Award among his many honors.<\/p>\n<p>Voted one of People magazine\u2019s &#8220;50 Most Beautiful People,&#8221; Stevens added acting to his list of accomplishments in 2003, when he portrayed jockey George Woolf in the blockbuster film <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=fifthlegpublishi&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;location=%2FSeabiscuit-2-Disc-Collectors-Jeff-Bridges%2Fdp%2FB0000DFZZC%2Fsr%3D1-3%2Fqid%3D1157662640%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_3%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd\">Seabiscuit<\/a>. Fittingly, Stevens had received the coveted George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>On March 29, 2006, NBC announced that Stevens would replace Charlsie Cantey as their commentator for horseracing coverage. Stevens is currently a racing analyst and commentator for both NBC Sports and TVG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Thoroughbred Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, 43, came full circle on Labor Day,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}