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Johnny Sellers (July 31, 1937 – July 3, 2010) was an American National Champion . Born in Los Angeles, but raised in , he began his professional career in 1955 and between 1959 and 1968 rode in six . He won the prestigious race aboard in 1961 then riding the colt to victory in the . That same year, he won eight straight races, equaling an American record set in 1951, and ended the year as the United States Champion Jockey by wins. 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 aboard Hail To All. In 1969, he was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. TIME magazine, March 24, 1961

Retired in 1997, Sellers lived in Hallandale, Florida, two blocks from racetrack. He remained involved in the racing industry as a bloodstock agent. 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 .

In 2007, Johnny Sellers was elected to the United States' Racing Hall of Fame. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame In 2011, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Johnny Sellers died on July 3, 2010, at age 72 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Sellers dead at 72 He had two sons, Mark Sellers and John Michael Sellers, both of whom had careers as jockeys. He also had a daughter, Sabrina Sellers Machado.

After finishing seventh at the Belmont Stakes with Carry Back, he was a Mystery Guest on What's My Line with , , Dorothy Kilgallen, and on the panel. Sellers won $10 for stumping Cerf and Francis; Joey Bishop successfully guessed his identity.

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