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G.R.Carter became Quarter racing’s all-time leading jockey in spectacular fashion on June 1 at Remington Park. Entering the final weekend of the Oklahoma City track’s Quarter Horse meet, Carter needed a little more than $162,000 to match Jacky Martin’s record of $41,405,207.<\/p>\n
Carter, 40, a former gymnast known to perform a celebratory back-flip dismount in the winner’s circle, won the Land Run Stakes and just missed the 350-yard track record on Duck Mea Running, the meet’s champion Oklahoma-bred. He then piloted Coronas Fast Dash to a second-place finish in the G1 Heritage Place Derby, and in the final race, the $1.1 million Heritage Place Futurity, rode Jess Zoomin to place second. Carter had qualified the winner, 24-1 longshot Stolis Winner, but had picked the mount on Jess Zoomin, who he had ridden to qualify for the race with a track record-setting 17.320 seconds.<\/p>\n
In addition to finishing the meet with a new Quarter Horse world earnings record of $41,601,052, Carter scored a record 98 wins, breaking his own previous record of 93 for a season at Remington Park (with\u00a025% wins and 56% in-the-money finishes), and earned his eleventh championship title at the track.<\/p>\n
In the past, Carter, a Pawhuska, OK native, has also topped the charts in wins and\/or earnings at other major Quarter tracks, including Ruidoso Downs. But while Jacky Martin, now retired, won the All American Futurity, a race that pays $1 million to the winner, seven times, Carter has won that race just once, which makes his earnings record all the more significant.<\/p>\n
“To pass someone like Jacky is pretty special,” Carter said. “It’s kind of humbling because when I first started riding, I studied people like him. It’s the culmination of a lot of hard work for a lot of years.”<\/p>\n
Carter’s $41 million record does not include money earned in Paint and Appaloosa races, where he is also a leader. On May 31 at Remington Park, he won the $190,000 Graham Paint Futurity on Flash N B Gone. On April 19, he rode Bust N Moves to beat 16-time undefeated Got Country Grip by a nod in the Mister Lewie Handicap and foil the Paint champion’s hopes for a world record of 17 consecutive wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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