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Darrel McHargue is a retired American jockey who was born on September 22, 1954 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is best known for his success in the Kentucky Derby, having won the race twice in 1977 and 1979. He also won the Preakness Stakes in 1977 and the Belmont Stakes in 1979.
McHargue began his career as a jockey in 1971 and quickly rose to prominence, winning the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in 1972. He went on to win over 4,000 races in his career, including the Kentucky Derby twice, the Preakness Stakes, the Belmont Stakes, the Travers Stakes, the Santa Anita Derby, the Hollywood Gold Cup, the Jockey Club Gold Cup, and the Arlington Million.
McHargue retired from racing in 1989 and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1997. He currently resides in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. As of 2021, Darrel McHargue’s net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
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Virgo |
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22 September 1954 |
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22 September |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma United States |
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United States |
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Darrel McHargue Net Worth
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Timeline
McHargue retired from riding in early April 1988 and began a new career a few weeks later as a racing official. In 1994, he graduated from the Racing Officials Accreditation Program (ROAP). He worked at northern California tracks and in 2005 was appointed a race steward at Hollywood Park.
A proven rider on turf, in 1983 McHargue moved to a base in Ireland, where he rode for various trainers including Luca Cumani and Dermot Weld and for owners such as the American husband and wife team of Bertram and Diana Firestone and Englishman Ivan Allan. In 1984, he was the regular rider for Allan's outstanding colt Commanche Run and was scheduled to ride him as the early favorite in the St. Leger Stakes. However, superstar jockey Lester Piggott put pressure on Ivan Allan to give him the mount, and the owner eventually gave in. Commanche Run won the British Classic. McHargue soon returned home to Pasadena, California. [2]
Beginning in 1980, McHargue rode the great John Henry in eleven of his starts, [1] winning such races as the San Juan Capistrano Handicap, Hollywood Invitational Turf Handicap, San Gabriel Handicap, San Luis Rey Handicap, and San Marcos Stakes.
McHargue was the leading jockey at the 1977 Oak Tree Racing Association fall meet. The next year would be the best of his career. He rode six winners in one day at Santa Anita Park on March 5, 1978 and again on October 25, 1979. In 1978, he was the leading money-winning jockey in the United States with a record $6,188,353 and was voted the Eclipse Award as the United States' Outstanding Jockey. In addition, he was voted the 1978 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award presented by Santa Anita Park to the jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.
In 1975, the twenty-year-old McHargue earned the most important win of his career when he rode Master Derby to victory in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series.
McHargue had two mounts in the Belmont Stakes, finishing third with Master Derby in 1975 and second with McKenzie Bridge in 1976.
Darrel McHargue competed in eight Kentucky Derbys between 1974 and 1986. His best finishes were a second with Run Dusty Run in 1977 and a third with actor Jack Klugman's colt Jaklin Klugman in 1980.
Darrel G. McHargue (born September 26, 1954 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. One of five children from a family not connected to horse racing, he was first introduced to riding as a teenage boy when he rode a neighbor's Quarter Horse. He was seventeen years old when he made his professional debut in 1972 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The following year he was the leading rider at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland.
