Career
He began his career in 1968 and ten years later became the top American jockey with 384 wins. Eddie Delahoussaye was awarded in 1981. He was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 1993 into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
He retired from horse racing in January 2003 as a result of injuries to his head and neck suffered in a fall at Delegate March Racetrack.
In terms of monetary winnings, he is also fifteenth all time, having earned $195,881,170 in his career. In 2006 Delahoussaye wrote the preface to Santa Anita Morning Rhapsody, by photographer-author Karen South. Davis, a book documenting morning thoroughbred racetrack training.
"All of the moments that define the morning at Santa Anita are captured in the stunning photography of this book," he wrote. "Morning at Santa Anita racetrack is like no other time or place on earth.".