Asked to name traits that have carried Chris Loseth to the Hall of Fame, trainers invariably begin with his work ethic. Few riders have remained as enthusiastic race after race, day after day, year after year, as this little blonde dynamo.

He's been working hard since September 26th, 1974, when he won his first race aboard Stormy Dawn at Exhibition Park and is still going strong. In fact he enjoyed his best season ever at Ex. Park in 1992 with 161 victories, including nine stakes wins.

Last season also marked his fifth riding title at Ex. Park, having won in '84, '83, '80 and '76.

"I don't know if I work harder than anyone else, it's just that I enjoy it so much," said Loseth, "I hope to enjoy it until I"m 60. I'd like to be the leading rider at Exhibition Park every year."

He has more than 2,600 victories, the vast majority of them coming at Ex Park but he has also had success at Longacres, and in Northern California. He won six races in one afternoon at Longacres, and five one day at Golden Gate, including a stakes race on Track jester.

But his most prolific day was at Ex Park, April 9, 1984. He captured eight races in 10 mounts to equal a North American record.

He won a Sovereign Award as the leading apprentice in Canada in 1976 and another in 1984 as the leading rider in the country.

He was a regular pilot on the three greatest money-earning B.C.-breds of all time...Delta Colleen, Travelling Victor and Police Inspector...and considers his triumph aboard R.J. Bennett's Travelling Voctor in the $150,000 Longacres Mile in 1984 as his single greatest achievement. He fondly remembers his first stakes victory aboard Patti Ruth in the 1975 Vanity Stakes and has a soft spot in his heart for Detrimental, a stakes star of the '70s.

"It didn't matter how you rode Detrimental, the worst he would do is finish third," remembers Loseth, "I learned a lot from him."

Loseth spent the first six years of his life in Tete Jeune Cache on the B.C.-Alberta border near McBride, B.C., where his father operated a lumber mill. The family then moved to Fort Nelson and after he had completed grade 11 they moved on to Grand Forks.

When he was 10 years old he read about Johnny Longden winning his 6,000th race of his career at Exhibition Park. From that day on he told everyone he was going to be a jockey and when he finished high school he started serving his apprenticeship under trainer Alan May.

The rest, as they say, is history. History that's still in the making.