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Eddie Arcaro (February 19, 1916 - November 4, 1997) was an American thoroughbred horse-racing jockey.
In 1958 Eddie Arcaro was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
Arcaro retired in 1962 because of severe Bursitis in his arm.
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 ESPN.com: Arcaro was 'Master' of Triple Crown
Arcaro was born Feb. 19, 1916 in Cincinnati.
At the age of 39 in 1955, Arcaro was involved in one of the top racing rivalries.
Arcaro, who was inducted into racing's Hall of Fame in 1958, rode his last race at the age of 45 on Nov. 18, 1961.
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 Eddie Arcaro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eddie's next attempt at the Derby came in 1938, when, aboard Lawrin at 8-1, he held off the charge of Dauber and won by a length.
Arcaro had a distinctive riding style, sitting nearly motionless on his mounts, and made famous the practice of switching the whip from one side to the other in the home stretch.
Eddie announced his retirement from racing in the spring of 1962, at the age of 46.
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 ESPN Classic - Arcaro was 'Master' of Triple Crown
Arcaro rode five Kentucky Derby winners -- a record he shares with Bill Hartack -- a record six Preakness winners and six Belmont winners.
Smart, aggressive and strong, Arcaro was the country's leading rider in the money six times (1940, 1942, 1948, 1950, 1952 and 1955).
Arcaro had the opportunity to make it three Derbies in five years when Greentree Stables in 1942 let him choose between Shut Out and Devil Diver.
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When Eddie Arcaro visited Renick, who was recovering in the hospital from a broken leg, their discussions led to the formation of an organization that would represent the concerns of jockeys.
Eddie Arcaro continued his dominance in the major races in the United States throughout 1948.
Arcaro was the only jockey to have won the Triple Crown twice and was the leading money and stakes rider in history at the time.
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 Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: No jockey better than Arcaro 11/15/97
Arcaro began riding in 1931 in an era before races were filmed for viewing by the stewards, and jockeys got away with everything they could.
Arcaro, an affable man with a sense of humor and knack for telling stories when he had both feet on the ground, never quit fighting when he rode, but he did learn to control the temper that once carried him far beyond the rules.
Eddie Arcaro was reinstated Sept. 19, 1943, and rode into legend.
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Cauthen said he first met Arcaro during the 1978 Derby when Arcaro was a television commentator and Cauthen, still a teen-ager, rode Affirmed to victory in a classic matchup against Alydar, a Calumet Farms horse.
Arcaro has some riding memories of another sort from his youth on Joyce Avenue, a steep street on the Newport-Southgate border.
Arcaro said he is happy to return to Northern Kentucky for the Beam, which will run on Saturday.
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 Eddie Arcaro biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eddie Arcaro (February 19, 1916 - November 4, 1997) was born George Edward Arcaro in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States, the son of an impoverished taxi driver.
Small in stature, Eddie would go on to become one of the greatest thoroughbred horse-racing jockeys in the history of American racing.
He is the only jockey to win two Triple Crowns in Thoroughbred Racing.
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Weighing only three pounds at birth, and destined to be of slight physical stature, Eddie would exploit his slim frame and his athleticism.
The highlights of Arcaro's career occurred in the nation's premier racing events: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.
Arcaro along with Earl Sande and George Woolf, was one of three jockeys elected to the newly-created Hall of Fame in 1955.Upon his retirement he remained active as a television sports commentator.
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 Sports - The Enquirer - November 15, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eddie Arcaro rode Whirlaway to the Triple Crown in 1941.
Arcaro twice rode winners that won racing's toughest prize, the Triple Crown: the Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.
Arcaro learned the craft of riding at the old Latonia course in Covington that closed in 1939.
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Arcaro was the greatest when I first started going to Belmont and Jamaica as a kid in the late 1940s.
The feeling was that if Arcaro had a horse up close as he approached the wire, you could count on old Banana Nose with his powerful wrists and shoulders to carry the horse over the finish line.
Arcaro was a tough customer, so it must have been because of Shoemaker’s good nature that Arcaro did not resent the guy who rivaled him as the best of all jocks--at least in this country.
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 Innisfree Farm: Rice's Derby Choice Journal 1998 - 19th Edition
Arcaro was a frequent visitor to the stewards' box for reprimand and periodic suspension.
Arcaro's response to the query was concise, "I was trying to kill the SOB." That pithy testimony cost him a year's suspension from the game.
The image of Eddie Arcaro in my mind's eye persists: a genuinely nice man with a smile as wide as his nose was long.
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 Arcaro, Eddie --  Encyclopædia Britannica
byname of George Edward Arcaro American jockey who was the first to ride five Kentucky Derby winners and two U.S. Triple Crown champions (winners of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes).
U.S. jockey, the second, after Eddie Arcaro, ever to win five Kentucky Derbies and the first, in 1956, to win $2,000,000 in a single year, a record he broke the following year by earning $3,000,000.
The U.S. entertainer Eddie Foy became famous in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a musical comedy and vaudeville comedian.
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Eddie Arcaro - Eddie Arcaro Age: 81 only jockey in history to ride two Triple Crown champions, Whilaway in 1941...
Eddie Arcaro - Arcaro, Eddie (George Edward Arcaro), 1916–97, American jockey, b.
Arcaro, Eddie - Arcaro, Eddie (George Edward) jockey Birthplace: Cincinnati Born: 1916 Died: 1997 Information...
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Eddie Arcaro
American jockey Eddie Arcaro won his first race in 1932.
Over the next 30 years the horses he rode won more than $30 million in prize money.
He twice won the Triple Crown and rode in more than 24,000 races.
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Eddie Arcaro, winner of five Kentucky Derbies was honorary chairman for the ceremonies.
Arcaro added, "There is no chance that his record of winning will ever be surpassed.
Arcaro best summed up the appropriateness of the placement fo the body in the park.
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 The New York Times: This Day In Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Kentucky Derby winner was in front every foot of the mile-and-three-sixteenths journey -by a neck the first time under the wire, by close to a length going into the clubhouse bend, by two in the backstretch and by three as he entered the payoff lane.
Arcaro decided he was loafing a bit at the entrance to the stretch and tapped him there; he did it again just outside the eighth pole.
Citation, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, leading the Preakness by a length approaching the clubhouse turn at Pimlico.
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 Arcaro, Eddie on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His mounts won the Horse of the Year title eight times between 1941 and 1961.
Fast Eddie: riding thoroughbred horses with fire and grace, the diminutive Eddie Arcaro grew into one of racing's giants.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
ARCARO REIGNED AS THE MASTER JOCKEY LEGEND DIES OF CANCER.(SPORTS)
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 AllRefer.com - Eddie Arcaro (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Eddie Arcaro (George Edward Arcaro)[ArkAr´O] Pronunciation Key, 1916–97, American jockey, b.
He was the only jockey to have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes) twice, on Whirlaway in 1941 and on Citation in 1948.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Eddie Arcaro
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Awful Truth -- Nov. 21, 1949
Ace Jockey Eddie ("Heady Eddie") Arcaro, riding Brookmeade Stable's Blue Hills, was two lengths in front as the horses flashed past the grandstand for the second time in last week's $15,000 added Pimlico Cup.
Eddie's error: the Pimlico Cup, longest of U.S. stake races, is 2½ miles.
Arcaro got Blue Hills going again but he finished second behind Pilaster.
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 Eddie Arcaro often atop horses of famed names
Eddie Arcaro often atop horses of famed names
On Jan. 14, 1932, Eddie Arcaro, a Cincinnati native and the only jockey to win two Triple Crowns, won his first race - after eight months of trying -at Agua Caliente, Mexico.
Arcaro, later dubbed "The Master," rode a record 17 winners in Triple Crown races during a span of 18 years, making him one of the most successful jockeys of all time.
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 Braulio Baeza : Biography: United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sherluck won the Bluegrass Stakes under Braulio and Eddie Arcaro suddenly decided he wanted the mount back on Sherluck in the Kentucky Derby.
Braulio rode Crozier in the Kentucky Derby for Mr.
Eddie Arcaro didn’t want to ride Sherluck anymore and went in search of a different mount.
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 Archives, Collectibles, Books on Trocadero
This book by Eddie Arcaro is # 161 from a limited edition of 500.
It is signed by Eddie Arcaro and was published in 1957 by the Wright Lithographing Company Inc. New York.
The titles are #1 Eddie Arcaro #2 The Master's Hands #3 Post Parade #4...
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 Eddie Arcaro tribute page - (09:14:41 on 11/17/97) - longshot lou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eddie Arcaro tribute page - (09:14:41 on 11/17/97) - longshot lou
Eddie Arcaro, the only jockey to ride 2 Triple Crown winners, died in Florida at age 81.
There are some wonderful photos that Cindy herself put on her page, as well as a little video of Arcaro riding Nashua
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 Nashua: 1955 Horse of the Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Eddie Arcaro rode him for the first time in his next start, when he beat Summer Tan by a half length in the Juvenile Stakes.
Eddie Arcaro was back in the saddle for the Grand Union Hotel Stakes, and the results were better.
Nashua was the winner by a length and three-quarters while conceding weight to the runner up.
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 Thurston's World - American People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arcaro's earnings included $47,500 in 1938 on Lawrin-$61,725 in 1941, Whirlaway-$64,850 in 1945, Hoop Jr-$111,450 in 1948, Citation.
Arcaro was also the only Jockey to win the Triple Crown twice-riding Whirlaway and Citation.
That was just a picnic out there-just a picnic." Arcaro, born in 1916 in Cincinnati, entered his first race in 1931 and won his first race in 1932 on Eagle Bird.
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 Big Red's Stable:The United Fans of Man o'War!
You're the one with the book, all I want is the quote from Eddie Arcaro where he admits that he "Hooked" Citation.
Unless you can produce Arcaro's admission on this matter then it's just hearsay which is worth nothing.
On the other hand I'll give you a quote from Eddie Arcaro on what he thought of Secretariat :
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 The Bookologist Dealer's Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 LEADING UP TO SPECIAL SPORTING EVENTS - Conway's Sports Research
Winkfield shares that successive victory distinction with just three other jockeys (Isaac Murphy, Ron Turcotte and Eddie Delahoussaye.) His colorful career began with a one-year suspension for causing a four-horse pile-up on his first-ever mount.
In his third full year of riding, in 1901, Winkfield captured 161 races and in 1903 he headed for Russia where legend has it that he rode for the czar.
J.D.Hertz Don Cameron 1946 Assault Warren Mehrtens King Ranch Max Hirsch 1948 Citation Eddie Arcaro Calumet Farm Ben A. Jones 1973 Secretariat Ron Turcotte Meadow Stable Lucien Laurin 1977 Seattle Slew Jean Cruguet Karen L. Taylor William Turner, Jr.
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 80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2 June 12 in History
80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2 June 12 in History
80th Belmont: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:28.2
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
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