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PEOPLE, Page 65Top JockBy Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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.