 As a promising young rider, he won the 1983 Grade III Barbara Fritchie Handicap on Stellarette, and the 1984 John B. Campbell Handicap on Island Champ.In the 1990s he had two graded stakes wins with Wait for the Lady, and won the Campbell handicap a second time with Ameri Valay.He came in second in the 1995 Preakness Stakes on Oliver's Twist, and in that year topped $2 million in racetrack earnings (jockeys share being approximately 10% of the horse's winnings).