1981 — Willie Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race and then three more. Shoemaker gets the milestone on top of War Allied in the ...

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Aboard a lackluster hayburner named Strathnaver, Jockey Willie Shoemaker was having traffic troubles, too. Bottled up in the backstretch, he slipped his mount through a narrow gap on the rail ...

This year's Derby, which was the sixth that Calumet has won, will probably go down in the annals as the Lucky Derby, because Willie Shoemaker who rode Gallant Man, mistook the 16th pole for the ...