Success soon followed. He and Eddie Arcaro are the only two jockeys to ever win the Kentucky Derby five times.
Mr. Hartack died Monday night from natural causes due to heart disease, said Dr. Corinne Stern, the chief medical examiner in Webb County in Texas. From 1974 to 1980 he raced in Hong Kong, then retired in 1981. Facebook profile Winners ridden in Triple Crown Classic races : On November 26, 2007, days before what would have been his 75th birthday, Hartack was found dead in a cabin at a camp near the town of Freer, Texas, in southern Texas, where he went each winter to hunt.
He is also the second leading jockey in all time earnings with over $312 million. Be With Us!
In 2006, Gutierrez was discovered by thoroughbred owner Glen Todd and horse trainer Troy Taylor, and they convinced Gutierrez to move to Vancouver, Canada to ride at Hastings Racecourse. It was Hartack’s third Kentucky Derby victory in a row (though they were not won consecutively). Corbin recognized Hartack’s innate talent, so he decided to sign him as a contract rider in 1952. He had 3,370 seconds and finished third in 2,871.
Hartack won 350 races in 1953, second among North American jockeys behind only Shoemaker, who had 485.
He was raised by his father after his mother was killed in a car accident when he was just eight years old. The cabin was checked because he had not been seen since the previous day. YouTube profile He died from natural causes due to heart disease, according to the chief medical examiner in Webb County.[1]. United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1956, 1957) United States Champion Jockey by wins (1955, 1956, 1957, 1960) Honours National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1959) Bill Hartack Memorial Handicap at Hawthorne #membersmakemoney.
Iron Liege may have won only because Bill Shoemaker, another major star of his era, aboard Gallant Man, misjudged the finish and eased his horse before the finish line. By the time he was 14, Rosario was already a professional jockey and received his first career win at the Galapagos Hippodromo V Centenario. “One of the reasons I left the U.S,” said Hartack shortly after arriving in Hong Kong, “was that I knew once I could get away from the American press, I would be very, very happy because they are so stupid.” He retired in 1977 and later worked as television analyst, jockey agent and racing official.
While growing up in Pennsylvania, Hartack’s family included two sisters, Maxine and Florence. He won the Belmont Stakes once, with Celtic Ash in 1960. "I've got great memories of that horse," Mr. Hartack told the Toronto Star. He was always the underdog.
His other Kentucky Derby wins came aboard Decidedly (1962); Northern Dancer (1964); and Majestic Prince (1969). Luckily for Hartack, Shoemaker misjudged the finish and stood up in the irons to celebrate his “victory”, allowing Hartack and Iron Leige to squeeze by to win the Kentucky Derby by a nose. Two weeks later, horse and rider claimed their first victory in a Triple Crown race at the Preakness. He was recognized for his 2008 Derby win and was honored for his two decades of achievements and victories in Thoroughbred racing.
He rode Tim Tam to victory in the 1958 Florida Derby but a week before the Kentucky Derby, Hartack broke a leg and had to give up his ride on Tim Tam, who won the race. Hartack was the top rider by earnings in 1956 and 1957 and the leader in victories four times - 1955 through 57 and 1960. He was a great person to grow up around.
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He never raced again. He was very smart as a youngster and was even named valedictorian of his high school class. He worked in the industry as an official and steward for many years, holding his final position as a steward at Louisiana Downs.
Top Rated Seller Top Rated Seller. When he was eight, Hartack’s mother died in an automobile accident, leaving him and his two siblings to be raised by his widowed father in a home with no heat, phone, electricity or bathroom. He was 74. During that span, he won 26 percent of his starts.
He later rode in Hong Kong from 1978 to 1980.
FREER, Texas - Bill Hartack, a Hall of Fame jockey and five-time Kentucky Derby winner, died while on a hunting vacation. Iron Liege, right, with Bill Hartack up, edged Gallant Man to win the 1957 Kentucky Derby.
In 1967, Hartack authored (with Whitney Tower) a three-part series in Sports Illustrated titled "A Hard Ride All The Way." According to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Hartack had 21,535 North American mounts and 4,272 winners. The following season, he won 75 races in one 36-day stretch at Arlington Park outside Chicago.
That would be the last time Bill Hartack would win the Kentucky Derby, though he would ride in it four more times. or Best Offer. Hartack twice had a chance to win the Triple Crown.
Bill Hartack was ultimately found dead in a cabin where he was to meet his friends for a hunting trip. Your email address will not be published. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING, (separate multiple addresses with commas). 1957 Garden State Park HOF Jockey Bill Hartack Wins on Norma First Press Photo.
At 13, Joel enrolled in the Dominican Republic’s jockey school and completed his training in 6 months. Born in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Pennsylvania, December 12, 1932, William John Hartack Jr. was the son of a coal miner.
He was the second jockey to ride as many as 400 winners in … He won the Preakness aboard Fabius in 1956, Northern Dancer in 1964, and Majestic Prince in 1969.
According to Hartack’s longtime agent, Chick Lang, he had caught the eye of the trainer T. J. Kelly, who bought his contract in 1954 from a West Virginia-based trainer, Junie Corbin, and hired him to ride for his stable at top tracks in Maryland, Chicago and Florida. Nevertheless, the stars aligned perfectly to allow Bill Hartack to win the Kentucky Derby a record-tying five times. A talented colt by the name of Arts and Letters made the first move on the turn and Hartack had to urge Majestic Prince for some incredible acceleration down the stretch to be able to catch him. Not wanting to follow his father and work in the coal mines, he left home to try his hand at becoming a jockey at racetracks in West Virginia.
"When I first came to this country and met him, it was like meeting a superstar - he was a jockey everyone had heard about," said Angel Cordero, another Hall of Fame jockey. It takes a great jockey, a great horse, and a great trainer to even have a chance at crossing the wire first. Shoemaker gave up his chance to ride the Canadian colt Northern Dancer in favor of a horse named Hill Rise; Northern Dancer was able to defy his doubters to hold off Hill Rise’s late charge by a neck. From United States +C $13.31 shipping.
After his retirement, Hartack had several stints as a steward, which is a high-ranking racing official, and worked as recently as last month at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La. the methods below. Receive Past the Wire directly in your inbox and stay up to date on Horse Racing, including the latest Thoroughbred Racing News and more.
The 2009 win was an especially momentous occasion in Thoroughbred racing as Borel rode Mine That Bird to victory despite 50-1 odds, the second-longest shot to win in Kentucky Derby history. In the fifth race, Hartack guided Big Steve over the mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf track in 1:45.25 to win in a photo finish.
Stern said that the coroner’s office had reached a family member and that funeral arrangements were pending. A magazine article once said he got along better with horses than with people.
Starting in post position seven in a field of 12, Northern Dancer blazed the one-and-a-quarter-mile dirt track in two minutes flat, a Kentucky Derby record that stood until Secretariat broke it in 1973. He led the nation in purse monies earned in 1956 and 1957. Hartack made his Kentucky Derby debut in 1956, finishing second aboard Fabius. The following year, Hartack won the Kentucky Derby aboard Iron Liege, triumphing by a nose when jockey Bill Shoemaker—riding runner-up Gallant … Tim Tam went on to win the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
He twice appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated –in 1956 and 1964 – and graced the front of Time in 1958.
Bill Shoemaker is the only other rider to win 3,000 races in less than ten years. He later enjoyed a quiet life, in which he enjoyed hunting. Another two years after that, he guided Decidedly towards those ever-desired blanket of roses.
His name will forever appear in history books as one of the Kentucky Derby’s winningest jockeys, a record that only time can tell if it will be broken.
In 1955, The diminutive Pennsylvanian won 417 races to become only the second jockey in history to ride 400 winners in a single year. He took a job as an exercise and stable boy at the age of 17 with trainer Junie Corbin at Charles Town Race Course in West Virginia.
Sep 27, 2014 - Bill Hartack April 1955. He was winning races and breaking records over and over again; he was just the second jockey to win 400 races in a single year and was the first jockey to win $3 million in a single year. Most wins by a jockey in a given year. He had 3,370 seconds and finished third in 2,871.
Hartack was only 19 when he rode his first winner, in 1953 at Waterford Park, a minor league track in West Virginia. In a quarter century of racing, Hartack posted 4,272 wins. In 1964, Northern Dancer followed up his Kentucky Derby win with a victory in the Preakness, only to finish third in the Belmont Stakes.
Success soon followed. He and Eddie Arcaro are the only two jockeys to ever win the Kentucky Derby five times.
Mr. Hartack died Monday night from natural causes due to heart disease, said Dr. Corinne Stern, the chief medical examiner in Webb County in Texas. From 1974 to 1980 he raced in Hong Kong, then retired in 1981. Facebook profile Winners ridden in Triple Crown Classic races : On November 26, 2007, days before what would have been his 75th birthday, Hartack was found dead in a cabin at a camp near the town of Freer, Texas, in southern Texas, where he went each winter to hunt.
He is also the second leading jockey in all time earnings with over $312 million. Be With Us!
In 2006, Gutierrez was discovered by thoroughbred owner Glen Todd and horse trainer Troy Taylor, and they convinced Gutierrez to move to Vancouver, Canada to ride at Hastings Racecourse. It was Hartack’s third Kentucky Derby victory in a row (though they were not won consecutively). Corbin recognized Hartack’s innate talent, so he decided to sign him as a contract rider in 1952. He had 3,370 seconds and finished third in 2,871.
Hartack won 350 races in 1953, second among North American jockeys behind only Shoemaker, who had 485.
He was raised by his father after his mother was killed in a car accident when he was just eight years old. The cabin was checked because he had not been seen since the previous day. YouTube profile He died from natural causes due to heart disease, according to the chief medical examiner in Webb County.[1]. United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1956, 1957) United States Champion Jockey by wins (1955, 1956, 1957, 1960) Honours National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1959) Bill Hartack Memorial Handicap at Hawthorne #membersmakemoney.
Iron Liege may have won only because Bill Shoemaker, another major star of his era, aboard Gallant Man, misjudged the finish and eased his horse before the finish line. By the time he was 14, Rosario was already a professional jockey and received his first career win at the Galapagos Hippodromo V Centenario. “One of the reasons I left the U.S,” said Hartack shortly after arriving in Hong Kong, “was that I knew once I could get away from the American press, I would be very, very happy because they are so stupid.” He retired in 1977 and later worked as television analyst, jockey agent and racing official.
While growing up in Pennsylvania, Hartack’s family included two sisters, Maxine and Florence. He won the Belmont Stakes once, with Celtic Ash in 1960. "I've got great memories of that horse," Mr. Hartack told the Toronto Star. He was always the underdog.
His other Kentucky Derby wins came aboard Decidedly (1962); Northern Dancer (1964); and Majestic Prince (1969). Luckily for Hartack, Shoemaker misjudged the finish and stood up in the irons to celebrate his “victory”, allowing Hartack and Iron Leige to squeeze by to win the Kentucky Derby by a nose. Two weeks later, horse and rider claimed their first victory in a Triple Crown race at the Preakness. He was recognized for his 2008 Derby win and was honored for his two decades of achievements and victories in Thoroughbred racing.
He rode Tim Tam to victory in the 1958 Florida Derby but a week before the Kentucky Derby, Hartack broke a leg and had to give up his ride on Tim Tam, who won the race. Hartack was the top rider by earnings in 1956 and 1957 and the leader in victories four times - 1955 through 57 and 1960. He was a great person to grow up around.
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He never raced again. He was very smart as a youngster and was even named valedictorian of his high school class. He worked in the industry as an official and steward for many years, holding his final position as a steward at Louisiana Downs.
Top Rated Seller Top Rated Seller. When he was eight, Hartack’s mother died in an automobile accident, leaving him and his two siblings to be raised by his widowed father in a home with no heat, phone, electricity or bathroom. He was 74. During that span, he won 26 percent of his starts.
He later rode in Hong Kong from 1978 to 1980.
FREER, Texas - Bill Hartack, a Hall of Fame jockey and five-time Kentucky Derby winner, died while on a hunting vacation. Iron Liege, right, with Bill Hartack up, edged Gallant Man to win the 1957 Kentucky Derby.
In 1967, Hartack authored (with Whitney Tower) a three-part series in Sports Illustrated titled "A Hard Ride All The Way." According to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Hartack had 21,535 North American mounts and 4,272 winners. The following season, he won 75 races in one 36-day stretch at Arlington Park outside Chicago.
That would be the last time Bill Hartack would win the Kentucky Derby, though he would ride in it four more times. or Best Offer. Hartack twice had a chance to win the Triple Crown.
Bill Hartack was ultimately found dead in a cabin where he was to meet his friends for a hunting trip. Your email address will not be published. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING, (separate multiple addresses with commas). 1957 Garden State Park HOF Jockey Bill Hartack Wins on Norma First Press Photo.
At 13, Joel enrolled in the Dominican Republic’s jockey school and completed his training in 6 months. Born in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Pennsylvania, December 12, 1932, William John Hartack Jr. was the son of a coal miner.
He was the second jockey to ride as many as 400 winners in … He won the Preakness aboard Fabius in 1956, Northern Dancer in 1964, and Majestic Prince in 1969.
According to Hartack’s longtime agent, Chick Lang, he had caught the eye of the trainer T. J. Kelly, who bought his contract in 1954 from a West Virginia-based trainer, Junie Corbin, and hired him to ride for his stable at top tracks in Maryland, Chicago and Florida. Nevertheless, the stars aligned perfectly to allow Bill Hartack to win the Kentucky Derby a record-tying five times. A talented colt by the name of Arts and Letters made the first move on the turn and Hartack had to urge Majestic Prince for some incredible acceleration down the stretch to be able to catch him. Not wanting to follow his father and work in the coal mines, he left home to try his hand at becoming a jockey at racetracks in West Virginia.
"When I first came to this country and met him, it was like meeting a superstar - he was a jockey everyone had heard about," said Angel Cordero, another Hall of Fame jockey. It takes a great jockey, a great horse, and a great trainer to even have a chance at crossing the wire first. Shoemaker gave up his chance to ride the Canadian colt Northern Dancer in favor of a horse named Hill Rise; Northern Dancer was able to defy his doubters to hold off Hill Rise’s late charge by a neck. From United States +C $13.31 shipping.
After his retirement, Hartack had several stints as a steward, which is a high-ranking racing official, and worked as recently as last month at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La. the methods below. Receive Past the Wire directly in your inbox and stay up to date on Horse Racing, including the latest Thoroughbred Racing News and more.
The 2009 win was an especially momentous occasion in Thoroughbred racing as Borel rode Mine That Bird to victory despite 50-1 odds, the second-longest shot to win in Kentucky Derby history. In the fifth race, Hartack guided Big Steve over the mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf track in 1:45.25 to win in a photo finish.
Stern said that the coroner’s office had reached a family member and that funeral arrangements were pending. A magazine article once said he got along better with horses than with people.
Starting in post position seven in a field of 12, Northern Dancer blazed the one-and-a-quarter-mile dirt track in two minutes flat, a Kentucky Derby record that stood until Secretariat broke it in 1973. He led the nation in purse monies earned in 1956 and 1957. Hartack made his Kentucky Derby debut in 1956, finishing second aboard Fabius. The following year, Hartack won the Kentucky Derby aboard Iron Liege, triumphing by a nose when jockey Bill Shoemaker—riding runner-up Gallant … Tim Tam went on to win the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
He twice appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated –in 1956 and 1964 – and graced the front of Time in 1958.
Bill Shoemaker is the only other rider to win 3,000 races in less than ten years. He later enjoyed a quiet life, in which he enjoyed hunting. Another two years after that, he guided Decidedly towards those ever-desired blanket of roses.
His name will forever appear in history books as one of the Kentucky Derby’s winningest jockeys, a record that only time can tell if it will be broken.
In 1955, The diminutive Pennsylvanian won 417 races to become only the second jockey in history to ride 400 winners in a single year. He took a job as an exercise and stable boy at the age of 17 with trainer Junie Corbin at Charles Town Race Course in West Virginia.
Sep 27, 2014 - Bill Hartack April 1955. He was winning races and breaking records over and over again; he was just the second jockey to win 400 races in a single year and was the first jockey to win $3 million in a single year. Most wins by a jockey in a given year. He had 3,370 seconds and finished third in 2,871.
Hartack was only 19 when he rode his first winner, in 1953 at Waterford Park, a minor league track in West Virginia. In a quarter century of racing, Hartack posted 4,272 wins. In 1964, Northern Dancer followed up his Kentucky Derby win with a victory in the Preakness, only to finish third in the Belmont Stakes.
Having only grown to 5’4”, 111 pounds by 19, he began racing as an apprentice jockey in October 1952. Hartack also won the Preakness Stakes three times and the Belmont Stakes once. Prior to Hartack, no jockey had ever won more than $ 2 million in a single year. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1959 at the early age of 26. His record of three in a row [although not in consecutive years] has never been equaled. A fierce competitor who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, Hartack was not out to make friends. "He was my idol," said trainer Mike Stidham, whose father, George, was Mr. Hartack's agent. Submit the form on the contact page, or reach out using one of Instagram profile. Five years later, Hartack rode Majestic Prince to wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. "It's easy to be friendly with somebody as the years go by, but I treated my profession as an individual contractor," he said.
Success soon followed. He and Eddie Arcaro are the only two jockeys to ever win the Kentucky Derby five times.
Mr. Hartack died Monday night from natural causes due to heart disease, said Dr. Corinne Stern, the chief medical examiner in Webb County in Texas. From 1974 to 1980 he raced in Hong Kong, then retired in 1981. Facebook profile Winners ridden in Triple Crown Classic races : On November 26, 2007, days before what would have been his 75th birthday, Hartack was found dead in a cabin at a camp near the town of Freer, Texas, in southern Texas, where he went each winter to hunt.
He is also the second leading jockey in all time earnings with over $312 million. Be With Us!
In 2006, Gutierrez was discovered by thoroughbred owner Glen Todd and horse trainer Troy Taylor, and they convinced Gutierrez to move to Vancouver, Canada to ride at Hastings Racecourse. It was Hartack’s third Kentucky Derby victory in a row (though they were not won consecutively). Corbin recognized Hartack’s innate talent, so he decided to sign him as a contract rider in 1952. He had 3,370 seconds and finished third in 2,871.
Hartack won 350 races in 1953, second among North American jockeys behind only Shoemaker, who had 485.
He was raised by his father after his mother was killed in a car accident when he was just eight years old. The cabin was checked because he had not been seen since the previous day. YouTube profile He died from natural causes due to heart disease, according to the chief medical examiner in Webb County.[1]. United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1956, 1957) United States Champion Jockey by wins (1955, 1956, 1957, 1960) Honours National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1959) Bill Hartack Memorial Handicap at Hawthorne #membersmakemoney.
Iron Liege may have won only because Bill Shoemaker, another major star of his era, aboard Gallant Man, misjudged the finish and eased his horse before the finish line. By the time he was 14, Rosario was already a professional jockey and received his first career win at the Galapagos Hippodromo V Centenario. “One of the reasons I left the U.S,” said Hartack shortly after arriving in Hong Kong, “was that I knew once I could get away from the American press, I would be very, very happy because they are so stupid.” He retired in 1977 and later worked as television analyst, jockey agent and racing official.
While growing up in Pennsylvania, Hartack’s family included two sisters, Maxine and Florence. He won the Belmont Stakes once, with Celtic Ash in 1960. "I've got great memories of that horse," Mr. Hartack told the Toronto Star. He was always the underdog.
His other Kentucky Derby wins came aboard Decidedly (1962); Northern Dancer (1964); and Majestic Prince (1969). Luckily for Hartack, Shoemaker misjudged the finish and stood up in the irons to celebrate his “victory”, allowing Hartack and Iron Leige to squeeze by to win the Kentucky Derby by a nose. Two weeks later, horse and rider claimed their first victory in a Triple Crown race at the Preakness. He was recognized for his 2008 Derby win and was honored for his two decades of achievements and victories in Thoroughbred racing.
He rode Tim Tam to victory in the 1958 Florida Derby but a week before the Kentucky Derby, Hartack broke a leg and had to give up his ride on Tim Tam, who won the race. Hartack was the top rider by earnings in 1956 and 1957 and the leader in victories four times - 1955 through 57 and 1960. He was a great person to grow up around.
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He never raced again. He was very smart as a youngster and was even named valedictorian of his high school class. He worked in the industry as an official and steward for many years, holding his final position as a steward at Louisiana Downs.
Top Rated Seller Top Rated Seller. When he was eight, Hartack’s mother died in an automobile accident, leaving him and his two siblings to be raised by his widowed father in a home with no heat, phone, electricity or bathroom. He was 74. During that span, he won 26 percent of his starts.
He later rode in Hong Kong from 1978 to 1980.
FREER, Texas - Bill Hartack, a Hall of Fame jockey and five-time Kentucky Derby winner, died while on a hunting vacation. Iron Liege, right, with Bill Hartack up, edged Gallant Man to win the 1957 Kentucky Derby.
In 1967, Hartack authored (with Whitney Tower) a three-part series in Sports Illustrated titled "A Hard Ride All The Way." According to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Hartack had 21,535 North American mounts and 4,272 winners. The following season, he won 75 races in one 36-day stretch at Arlington Park outside Chicago.
That would be the last time Bill Hartack would win the Kentucky Derby, though he would ride in it four more times. or Best Offer. Hartack twice had a chance to win the Triple Crown.
Bill Hartack was ultimately found dead in a cabin where he was to meet his friends for a hunting trip. Your email address will not be published. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING, (separate multiple addresses with commas). 1957 Garden State Park HOF Jockey Bill Hartack Wins on Norma First Press Photo.
At 13, Joel enrolled in the Dominican Republic’s jockey school and completed his training in 6 months. Born in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Pennsylvania, December 12, 1932, William John Hartack Jr. was the son of a coal miner.
He was the second jockey to ride as many as 400 winners in … He won the Preakness aboard Fabius in 1956, Northern Dancer in 1964, and Majestic Prince in 1969.
According to Hartack’s longtime agent, Chick Lang, he had caught the eye of the trainer T. J. Kelly, who bought his contract in 1954 from a West Virginia-based trainer, Junie Corbin, and hired him to ride for his stable at top tracks in Maryland, Chicago and Florida. Nevertheless, the stars aligned perfectly to allow Bill Hartack to win the Kentucky Derby a record-tying five times. A talented colt by the name of Arts and Letters made the first move on the turn and Hartack had to urge Majestic Prince for some incredible acceleration down the stretch to be able to catch him. Not wanting to follow his father and work in the coal mines, he left home to try his hand at becoming a jockey at racetracks in West Virginia.
"When I first came to this country and met him, it was like meeting a superstar - he was a jockey everyone had heard about," said Angel Cordero, another Hall of Fame jockey. It takes a great jockey, a great horse, and a great trainer to even have a chance at crossing the wire first. Shoemaker gave up his chance to ride the Canadian colt Northern Dancer in favor of a horse named Hill Rise; Northern Dancer was able to defy his doubters to hold off Hill Rise’s late charge by a neck. From United States +C $13.31 shipping.
After his retirement, Hartack had several stints as a steward, which is a high-ranking racing official, and worked as recently as last month at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La. the methods below. Receive Past the Wire directly in your inbox and stay up to date on Horse Racing, including the latest Thoroughbred Racing News and more.
The 2009 win was an especially momentous occasion in Thoroughbred racing as Borel rode Mine That Bird to victory despite 50-1 odds, the second-longest shot to win in Kentucky Derby history. In the fifth race, Hartack guided Big Steve over the mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf track in 1:45.25 to win in a photo finish.
Stern said that the coroner’s office had reached a family member and that funeral arrangements were pending. A magazine article once said he got along better with horses than with people.
Starting in post position seven in a field of 12, Northern Dancer blazed the one-and-a-quarter-mile dirt track in two minutes flat, a Kentucky Derby record that stood until Secretariat broke it in 1973. He led the nation in purse monies earned in 1956 and 1957. Hartack made his Kentucky Derby debut in 1956, finishing second aboard Fabius. The following year, Hartack won the Kentucky Derby aboard Iron Liege, triumphing by a nose when jockey Bill Shoemaker—riding runner-up Gallant … Tim Tam went on to win the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
He twice appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated –in 1956 and 1964 – and graced the front of Time in 1958.
Bill Shoemaker is the only other rider to win 3,000 races in less than ten years. He later enjoyed a quiet life, in which he enjoyed hunting. Another two years after that, he guided Decidedly towards those ever-desired blanket of roses.
His name will forever appear in history books as one of the Kentucky Derby’s winningest jockeys, a record that only time can tell if it will be broken.
In 1955, The diminutive Pennsylvanian won 417 races to become only the second jockey in history to ride 400 winners in a single year. He took a job as an exercise and stable boy at the age of 17 with trainer Junie Corbin at Charles Town Race Course in West Virginia.
Sep 27, 2014 - Bill Hartack April 1955. He was winning races and breaking records over and over again; he was just the second jockey to win 400 races in a single year and was the first jockey to win $3 million in a single year. Most wins by a jockey in a given year. He had 3,370 seconds and finished third in 2,871.
Hartack was only 19 when he rode his first winner, in 1953 at Waterford Park, a minor league track in West Virginia. In a quarter century of racing, Hartack posted 4,272 wins. In 1964, Northern Dancer followed up his Kentucky Derby win with a victory in the Preakness, only to finish third in the Belmont Stakes.