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Gary Lynn Stevens is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, actor, television personality and sports analyst. He worked as a jockey from 1979 until a brief retirement due to knee problems from 1999 until 2000, whereupon he returned to racing. He had an acting role in the 2003 film Seabiscuit and continued to ride until a second retirement in 2005, also related to knee issues. He then worked for HRTV and NBC Sports as a horse racing analyst for seven years, had a brief stint as a race horse trainer, and took a few other acting roles, notably in the TV series Luck, before coming out of retirement again in 2013. In the 2013 season, he won 69 of 383 races and finished the year 12th in the nation in purse earnings, winning a number of significant races including the 2013 Preakness Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Distaff and the Breeders' Cup Classic.
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