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- PEOPLE, Page 65Top Jock
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- I've been riding for 40 years, and I'm just getting tired
- of it." After some 8,810 trips to the winner's circle and more
- than $125 million in purses, Willie Shoemaker, 57, is getting
- ready to call it a day. But before he retires in February, the
- world's top jockey will be racing at 40 tracks around the
- country in a nostalgic farewell to the sport. One highlight of
- his career was the Kentucky Derby aboard Ferdinand in 1986, when
- he became the oldest jock ever to win the classic. Says he: "I
- rode the horse simply as well as you can get a horse to run."
- Nobody can do it better.
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