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SportHorse Racing
NameYves Saint-Martin
SubtitleThe First Jockey with 2,500 Wins?
Number10-23
InfoIn Aug. 1977 in Deauville, at the annual racing gala, Yves Saint-Martin will receive his 12th Golden Riding- Whip, the award inaugurated in 1962 which is presented to Europe's best jockey of the preceding season. Yves Saint-Martin's reputation on the race course is without equal; by the end of the 1976 flat season, he had won 2,183 races. It all began on 15 Sep. 1955 when the Parisian trainer Francois Mathet took on young Yves as an apprentice. At that time the future champion was 14 years old, weighed 131/2 lb and was only 4' 4" tall. Yves had been drawn to horses from an early age, although his first outing left him on all fours in the grass. The same happened eighteen months later, during his first race at Soissons. Yves did not give up and, on 26 July 1958, at Tremblay, he was first past the finishing post with "Royallic". During that same year he won 21 races, then 27 in 1959, 110 in 1960; by now, he was easily the most successful jockey around, but the Golden Whip had not yet been inaugurated. Three years later he won no fewer than 173 times, beating the previous number of wins on French racecourses set by Frank O'Neill in 1911 with 163 successes. Yves Saint-Martin then beat his own record the following year with 184 wins. Yves Saint-Martin now looks virtually unstoppable. He is winning regularly, not only at home in France but abroad too. His most spectacular win abroad came in 1963 when, riding "Relko", one of the best colts in Europe, he won the Epsom Derby in front of 300,000 spectators, including Queen Elizabeth of England.
Photo InfoYVES SAINT-MARTIN Born Sep. 8, 1941, in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, FRA AWARDS AND RECORDS Had won 2,183 races by the end of 1976 13-times top flat-racing jockey between 1960 and 1976 Winner of all great classics, including Washington DC International, the unofficial world championship in 1962 at Laurel Race Course, an American race track near Washington, riding "Match"; winner of Epsom Derby 1963 on "Relko"; winner of Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe 1970 on "Sassafras" and 1974 with "Allez France" Yves Saint-Martin and "Allez France" a winning partnership
Copyright© 1977, Editions Rencontre S.A., Lausanne Photo Gerard Vandystadt-SAM Printed in Italy 03 005 10-23
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