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Sandy Hawley was born on 16 April, 1949 in Oshawa, Ontario, is a Canadian jockey. Discover Sandy Hawley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Occupation Jockey
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April 1949
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Oshawa, Ontario
Nationality Ontario

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1945

Hawley earned his 6,450th official career victory with a win aboard Tribal Chief, a horse owned by musician/record producer Herb Alpert and his brother David Alpert.

1949

Desmond Sandford "Sandy" Hawley, (born April 16, 1949) is a Canadian Hall of Fame jockey.

Sandy Hawley was born in Oshawa, Ontario, decided to be a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking, grooming horses at a Woodbine racetrack in Toronto Ontario.

When he was 19 years old, he rode his first race at Woodbine race track as a Jockey.

Then he became a regular rider at racetracks in Ontario and then rode at racetracks on the East Coast of the United States.

Hawley became the first jockey to ever lead the Canadian standings in a full season as an apprentice.

1964

Gomez won the race four years running between 1964 and 1967.

1969

In 1969, a time when there were no Sovereign or Eclipse Awards for jockeys, Hawley rode 230 winners, the most that year of any apprentice jockey in North America.

1970

He went on to race in the United States where he led all jockeys in victories for the years 1970, 1972, 1973 and 1976.

1971

Hawley won the race five out of six years between 1971 and 1976, his streak broken by Gomez's fifth win in 1972.

1973

In the 1973 season, he became the first jockey to ever win 500 races in one year, breaking Bill Shoemaker's record.

Sandy Hawley has career earnings of over $88.6 million and was one of the most successful jockeys of his generation.

Racing in California, Hawley was named the winner of Santa Anita Park's prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.

Given to a North American rider who demonstrates the highest of standards of personal and professional conduct both on and off the racetrack, Hawley has had the lifelong reputation of being a gentleman and a man of honor.

He won the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1973 and 1976 as Canada’s top athlete and was named a Member of the Order of Canada, his country’s highest individual civilian honor for outstanding accomplishments by a citizen.

In addition to winning many major Stakes races in the United States, four times he won Canada's most prestigious thoroughbred horse race, the Queen's Plate.

Twice, Hawley won seven races in a single day at Toronto’s Woodbine Racetrack and at Santa Anita Park had six wins in a single day on two occasions.

Hawley and Avelino Gomez each won the Coronation Futurity Stakes a record five times.

1976

In 1976 he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States after he broke thoroughbred racing's all-time money-winning record for a single year.

As a boy growing up in Canada, Hawley developed a love for the game of ice hockey and while riding in California, he got an ice-level job as a penalty timekeeper for the home games of the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, giving himself a great view of his favorite game.

1979

Hawley's best result in the Kentucky Derby was two third-place finishes one of which was with Golden Act in 1979 aboard whom he finished second in both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.

1986

Sandy Hawley was voted the 1986 Avelino Gomez Memorial Award and that same year was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

1987

Diagnosed with skin cancer in 1987, doctors only gave him a few months to live but he fought to overcome the disease with experimental drugs, a careful high-fiber diet, and his sheer determination.

Sandy met a fellow Jockey Kaoru Tsuchiya when they were riding at Keeneland Race Track in 1987.

1992

He was inducted into the United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1992 and Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.

1998

Overall, Sandy Hawley's career as a jockey spanned 31 years from 1968 to his retirement on July 1, 1998.

He had 31,455 mounts, garnering 6,449 wins and won 18 riding titles at Woodbine Racetrack.

1999

He was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.

The Sandy Hawley Award is presented every year by the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame to an individual who best exemplifies a dedication to the community.

He currently is a Public Relations Ambassador for Woodbine Entertainment Group, and resides in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Kaoru.

He has worked as an analyst for The Score and CKXT-TV's horse racing coverage.

2008

On October 18, 2008 at Santa Anita Park, Sandy Hawley and seven other U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockeys came out of retirement for the Living Legends Race that officially counted in their career totals and was specially approved for legalized parimutuel wagering.

2019

The two were married in Lexington, Kentucky on March 10, 2019.

Sandy and his wife are working with the team of retired jockeys to help the permanently disabled Jockeys fund in many of the Community Association for Riding for the Disabled former and current volunteers.