Eddie Arcaro
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican jockey (1916-1997)
United StatesLived 1916 to 1997 · aged 81S. Triple Crown twice. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver.
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Bill ShoemakerAlso won George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
Oisin MurphyAlso won Champion Jockey
Ryan MooreAlso won Champion Jockey
Mike E. SmithAlso won George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
Steve CauthenAlso won National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Ron TurcotteAlso won George Woolf Memorial Jockey AwardAbout this person
George Edward Arcaro was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. His parents, Pasquale and Josephine, were Italian immigrants and his father held a number of jobs, including taxi driver and operator of an illegal liquor enterprise during Prohibition. Arcaro was born prematurely, and weighed just three pounds at birth; because of this, he was smaller than his classmates and was rejected when he tried out for a spot on a baseball team. His full height would reach just five-foot, two inches. Eventually nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico; he was 16 years old. In 1934, the inaugural year of Narragansett Park, Arcaro was a comparative unknown who rode many of his early career races at 'Gansett.
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