Hall of Fame inductee trainer Gary Jones and Hall of Fame jockey Don Pierce attend ATFL Fundraiser, August 20th ATFL welcomes Hall of Fame inductee Gary Jones and Hall of Fame jockey Don Pierce as our special guests at our Fundraiser party at En Fuego Cantina & Grill in Del Mar on Wednesday, August 20th. Gary Jones will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Friday, August 8th in Saratoga Springs, NY. Hall of Fame inductee Gary Jones Gary Jones won 1,465 races and had purse earnings of $52,672,611 in a career that spanned from 1975 to 1996. Since Equibase began keeping detailed statistics in 1976, he won 102 graded stakes and 223 overall stakes. Jones trained 104 individual stakes winners, including Turkoman, the 1986 champion older male. Jones trained Turkoman to victories in the Marlboro Cup, Oaklawn Handicap, and Widener Handicap. In the 1990s, he conditioned Hall of Famer Best Pal to wins in the Santa Anita Handicap, Oaklawn Handicap, Hollywood Gold Cup and Charles H. Strub. Jones also trained Kostroma to a world turf record of 1:43.92 in the 1 1/8-mile Las Palmas Handicap in 1991. Videos of Turkoman and Best Pal trained by Gary Jones youtube/watch?v=QeDswhlHUW0 1986 Breeders Cup Classic Turkoman 2nd youtube/watch?v=-AfOv0t616Q Best Pal won the inaugural running of the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Marin 1991 Hall of Fame jockey Don Pierce Don Pierce rose from humble racing roots to become one of the big money riders of the 1960s and 1970s. He was inducted in the National Museum of Racings Hall of Fame in 2010. His record speaks volumes: 3,546 career victories, 351 of them in stakes, $39 million in purses. Hes still in the top 12 all-time among Del Mar stakes-winning jockeys with 54. Pierce was presented the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1967. Pierce began his career with a victory at New Mexico’s Ruidoso Downs in 1954 and went on to become one of the most accomplished jockeys on the Southern California circuit. Pierce rode for such elite trainers as Mesh Tenney, William Molter, Charlie Whittingham and Robert Wheeler. Pierce won the Santa Anita Handicap, four times, he won five consecutive runnings of the Los Angeles Handicap (1969-73) and five runnings of the Santa Anita Oaks. He won the Del Mar Debutante and Hollywood Oaks four times each and the Del Mar Derby, Del Mar Oaks, Santa Monica Handicap, Santa Ana Handicap and Santa Margarita Handicap three times apiece. Among Pierce’s top mounts were Flying Paster, Ack,Ack, Hill Rise, Quack, Taisez Vous, La Zanzara, Triple Bend, Kennedy Road, Modus Vivendi, Forceten, Minstrel Miss and Princessnessian.
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