Which famous people have you outlived?

Eddie Arcaro

Jockey

Died when: 81 years 268 days (980 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Eddie Arcaro

George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916 – November 14, 1997), was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and was 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.


Related People

George Barrett
English Jockey
Joe Notter
American jockey
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License