Johnny Sellers
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Johnny Sellers (born July 31, 1937) is a retired American jockey. Between 1959 and 1968 he rode in six Kentucky Derbys, winning the prestigious race aboard Carry Back in 1961 then riding the colt to victory in the Preakness Stakes. That same year, he won eight straight races, equaling an American record set in 1951. He made the August 28, 1961 cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.
In 1958, Sellers rode Jack Ketch to victory in the Canadian International Stakes and in 1965 he won the Belmont Stakes aboard Hail To All. In 1969 he was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.
Retired, and living in Hallandale, Florida, two blocks from Gulfstream Park racetrack, in 1999 he was in the news after recovering his Kentucky Derby trophy. Stolen from his Monrovia, California home in 1978, twenty-one years later a friend notified him that the engraved sterling silver trophy was being offered for sale on eBay.
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