Then there's the American jockeys against the Europeans: They ride much tighter here.

Borel is the 26th North American jockey to reach 5000 victories.

He won more races in 1963 and 1964 than any other American jockey.

Within two years he had twice won five races on a single day and in 1920 he led all American jockeys with a 31% winning percentage.

He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins.

Day has the most extraordinary patience of any leading American jockey and will often wait until the last possible moment to make his move with a horse.

In 1899, there was an invasion of American jockeys into British racing.

In 1989, he won 598 races, still the record for most victories in a year by a North American jockey.

It made him the oldest American jockey to win a horse race.

Isaac Murphy, perhaps the greatest American jockey of the 19th century, earned more than $25,000.