Occupation Jockey Name Walter Miller | Role Jockey Died 1959 | |
Career wins 1,094
(Winning Percentage: 28%) | ||
Walter Miller (1890–1959) was an American jockey.
Miller was Jewish, and was born in Brooklyn, New York.
He rode in his first race at age 14. At the age of 16, he won 388 races (a record not broken until Willie Shoemaker did it in 1952; 28 per cent of his mounts were victorious), and between the years 1905 and 1908 he won 1,094 races. He led the U.S. in victories in both 1906 and 1907.
In 1906, he won the Preakness on Whimsical. He also won the Travers Stakes, Alabama Stakes, Champagne Stakes, Saratoga Special Stakes, and Brooklyn Handicap.
He was the National Riding Champion in 1906 and 1907.
In his career, more than half the time his horse finished "in the money". He set a record by riding eight consecutive winners, over a two-day period. His career ended in the United States after he gained weight as a late teenager. He then rode in Europe, with success.
He was inducted into the National Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1955, into the Jockey Hall of Fame in 1957, and into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.