Chris McCarron Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Christopher John “Chris” McCarron (born March 27, 1955, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former American thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in 2007.

His elder brother, jockey Gregg McCarron, was the one who first introduced him to the sport of thoroughbred racing. Chris McCarron started riding professionally in 1974 at racetracks on the East Coast, where he was recognised with the Eclipse Award for the Most Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in the United States the following year. In 1977, he relocated to California and won the Kentucky Oaks for the first of his three Kentucky Oaks victories that year. 

In 1980, he was named the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey as the finest overall jockey, and the following year, he was awarded the coveted George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award by his fellow jockeys. In 1991, he received the Mike Venezia Memorial Award, which was given to him in recognition of his “outstanding sportsmanship and citizenship.” Six victors in the United States Triple Crown Races were ridden by McCarron, who took home nine Breeders’ Cup victories, including five Breeders’ Cup Classic victories. Chris McCarron was honoured with induction into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1989. In June 2002, he announced his retirement from racing after twenty-eight years. With more than $264 million in wins, he ended as the all-time leading earner in thoroughbred racing’s purse-money standings.

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