Plainridge: Jay Randall lands 5,000th career driving win

When driver Jay Randall won the fourth race with Sweet Street Lou (1:54.4, $8.60) at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (July 16) afternoon, he reached the 5,000 win plateau for his career that now spans 46 years.

Randall, a resident of Ballston Spa, New York, started his driving career in 1977 at Saratoga Raceway and five years later won the 1982 Johnny Page Award as the up and coming driver there. Over the years, Randall has switched his base of operations several times, moving to Monticello, then Yonkers and then the Meadowlands before returning to Saratoga in 2005, where he has been a leading driver ever since.

Since 2019, Randall has split his summers by also competing at Plainridge Park and has been very successful at both tracks.

As a regular member of the Plainridge driver colony, Randall has racked up 286 wins that earned their connections over $4.1 million in purses. His best single year at The Ridge was 2022 when he finished third in the standings with 100 wins and just under $1.5 million in earnings.

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The 63-year-old Randall had his single best overall season for wins in 2019 when he hung 238 victories on his competitors. Since 2018 alone, Randall has won $10.5 million in purses, and that's while being sidelined for an extended period of time in 2021 when he was injured in a racing accident at Saratoga Raceway.

This year, Randall is tied as the seventh-leading driver at Plainridge with 17 wins and is tied as the fourth-leading driver at Saratoga with 75 wins.

Randall notched his 4,000th driving win in August of 2018 and surpassed $30 million in lifetime earnings in 2023. That number is now in excess of $32 million.

--press release (Plainridge)--