- The first jockey to win over $100 million.
- Inducted into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1999 (inaugural class).
- At the age of 54, he became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby.
- Won: Kentucky Derby: 1955, 1959, 1965, 1986
- Inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 1958.
- Led all American jockeys in wins five times: 1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959.
- Inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1958.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 509-511. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
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