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	Johnny Longden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A founding member of the Jockeys' Guild in 1940, Johnny Longden was the United States' leading jockey in races won in 1938, 1947, and again in 1948 and was the leading jockey in purses won in 1943 and 1945.
		In 1958, Longden was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and retired the following year as the jockey with the most wins in racing history with 6,032 victories from his 32,413 mounts.
		Longden was inducted into the Canadian Racing Hall of Fame in 1976 and in 1994 he was recognized further by the North American racing industry with a Special Eclipse Award.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Longden (379 words)

	Johnny Longden 1907 - 2003
		Johnny Longden, the only person to win the Kentucky Derby as both a jockey and trainer passed away on February 14, 2003.
		Legendary jockey Johnny Longden, winner of the 1943 Triple Crown on Count Fleet and the only person to win the Kentucky Derby as both a jockey and trainer, passed away Friday February 14, 2003.
		Longden had been in poor health for several years and had a stroke last August which left him bedridden.
	www.horse-races.net /library/article-021503.htm (359 words)

	Retired California trainer Vance Longden Dead \| bloodhorse.com
		Retired conditioner Vance Longden, who used his Hall of Fame father, Johnny Longden, to ride in some of the nation's biggest races, died Jan. 6 of cancer in Solana Beach, Calif. Longden was 72.
		The elder Longden was aboard St. Vincent in such wins as the 1955 San Juan Capistrano and Washington's Birthday Handicaps the year the horse was champion turf male.
		Johnny Longden won the 1961 Hollywood and Santa Anita Derbys and also rode the colt for his son in that year's Kentucky Derby.
	www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=13455 (217 words)

	USATODAY.com - Legendary jockey Johnny Longden passes away (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Longden, who won the Triple Crown aboard Count Fleet in 1943 and was the only man to ride and train a Kentucky Derby winner, died Friday on his 96th birthday.
		Longden and his father worked the mines in southern Alberta until, at 20, he decided to become a jockey.
		With Longden using only reins and his opponent laying on with boots and whip, Royal George waged a head-to-head battle with Plaque that went down to the wire before Royal George won by a nose.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/horses/2003-02-14-longden-dies_x.htm (453 words)

	SI.com - Horse Racing - Hall of Fame jockey Longden dies at 96 - Friday February 14, 2003 08:46 PM
		Longden rode Count Fleet to thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown, with victories in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
		Shoemaker wrote about such Longden tricks as putting his horse on the lead and daring the other riders to get by him, and talking to other riders, especially the younger ones, during a race to get them out of position.
		Longden is survived by his third wife, Kathy; Eric and Andrea, children from his second marriage; and five grandchildren.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /horse_racing/news/2003/02/14/longden_obit_ap (879 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Columnist Ralph Siraco: Legendary jockey Longden dead at 96
		Legendary jockey Johnny Longden died early afternoon on his 96th birthday at his home in Banning, Calif. The Hall of Fame rider who retired from 40 years in the saddle as the world's winningest jockey 26 years ago leaves a storybook career of which Hollywood movies are made.
		Longden was the nation's leading money-winning rider in 1943 and 1945 and won the most races by a jockey in 1938, 1947 and 1948.
		Longden is the only person in history to win the Kentucky Derby as both a rider and trainer.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/eat/2003/feb/17/514674340.html (595 words)

	Sports Illustrated : Back on track. (jockey Johnny Longden) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Longden believes the tutelary started looking out for him one day in the spring of 1912, in his native England.
		Johnny, his four siblings and their mother, Mary, were scheduled to sail to their new home in Canada, where they would join Johnny's father, Herb, but their tram to the Liverpool dock was running late.
		Longden remembers his mother in tears, clutching six tickets in her hand, as they watched the ship steam off, the word Titanic barely visible on its bow.
	static.highbeam.com /s/sportsillustrated/july111994/backontrackjockeyjohnnylongden (199 words)

	ESPN.com - Memories of Johnny Longden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnny got to North America, and while still a child he worked as a "grease pig." That was the name given to the small folks who led the mules hauling coal out of the mines in northwestern Canada.
		Johnny was a jockey for 40 years, and a trainer for 23.
		Longden told all the writers in the suite that night that Majestic Prince was knocked out from the rigors of the first two legs, and would not win The Belmont.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1509607&type=columnist (1069 words)

	BackWhen.com - Where Are They Now?
		In 1943, Johnny Longden won the Triple Crown on Count Fleet.
		In 1956, Johnny became the "winningest" jockey of all time.
		Johnny died in 2003 at 96 years of age.
	backwhen.com /whereare.asp?WhereID=15&offset=-1 (57 words)

	LEO -- Louisville Eccentric Observer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Longden enjoyed two — actually three — careers on the turf, and some of the things he was a part of became milestones in horse-racing history.
		Longden was determined to get the horse, and when the bidding began to escalate, he kept McMahon in the hunt, much as he had kept horses running to the wire.
		Longden didn’t want to race him in the third leg of the Triple Crown, but McMahon, who was ill in Vancouver, was persuaded by public pressure to run in the Belmont.
	www.leoweekly.com /archives/022603/sports.shtml (1863 words)

	Father son ( Mike)
		Mike, as the Longdens called him, can't possibly understand the poignancy of a son dying before his father, even if the father was 96 and the son was 67.
		I met John Longden in 1993, not long after after he had relocated from his palatial estate in Arcadia to the Sun Lakes Retirement Village in Banning.
		Longden eventually helped Vance get an apprenticeship with trainer Bill Molter, and by 23 Vance was training on his own.
	www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/2003/02/24/1046067968.html (1053 words)

	Johnny Longden
		Longden rode in and won his first race at Bay Meadows race track in 1935.
		He was the winner of the first Golden Gate Handicap at Golden Gate Fields in 1947 and won 10 of the first 17 runnings of the Handicap.
		The Johnny Longden Turf Course at Bay Meadows named in his honor in 1978.
	www.bashof.org /inducteebios/jlongden.htm (92 words)

	Kentucky Derby 129 \| 2003 \| Derby Coverage \| Derby News \| 2.15.2003 \|
		At the start of the Wood, a horse ridden by George Woolf, Longden's childhood buddy from Canada, collided with Count Fleet and caused a deep gash in one of Count Fleet's coronet bands, which is where the hair meets the hoof on a horse's ankle.
		Although Longden believed he deserved credit for nursing Count Fleet through the Belmont, Eddie Arcaro, who had won the 1941 Triple Crown aboard Calumet Farm's Whirlaway, later was harshly critical of Longden's ride in the Belmont.
		After the death of his wife, Hazel, Longden sold their house near Santa Anita and moved into a condominium in Banning, near Palm Springs, much of Longden's memorabilia was lost, including a photo of Count Fleet taken at Belmont Park just before the colt was shipped to Louisville.
	www.kentuckyderby.com /2003/derby_coverage/derby_news/derby_news_02152003.html (2812 words)

	Thoroughbred Times: Today's News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnny Longden, the only person in Thoroughbred racing history to win the Kentucky Derby (G1) as both a jockey and trainer, died on Friday, his 96th birthday.
		Longden, who had been in failing health after suffering a stroke last summer, died at his home in Banning, California, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
		Longden, elected to the Racing Hall of Fame in 1958, retired with a then record 6,032 riding victories.
	www.thoroughbredtimes.com /todaysnews/newsview.asp?recno=30533&subsec=1 (775 words)

	Johnny Longden -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the age of two, Johnny Longden's family emigrated to (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada, settling in (Click link for more info and facts about Taber, Alberta) Taber, Alberta.
		Based at (Click link for more info and facts about Santa Anita Park) Santa Anita Park, by 1956 he had become thoroughbred racing's winningest rider, breaking the record of 4,870 wins by (The people of Great Britain) British jockey (Click link for more info and facts about Sir Gordon Richards) Sir Gordon Richards (1904-1988).
		In 1958, Longden was inducted into the (Click link for more info and facts about National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame) National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and retired the following year as the jockey with the most wins in racing history with 6,032 victories from his 32,413 mounts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnny_longden.htm (323 words)

	Johnny Kerr - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Johnny Kerr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnny Kerr - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Johnny Kerr.
		John G. "Johnny" Kerr (born July 17, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) is a former pro basketball player and coach.
		He played 12 season in the NBA, eleven of them with the Syracuse Nationals (which later became the Philadelphia 76ers).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Johnny-Kerr.html (115 words)

	Longden Services \| bloodhorse.com
		Funeral services for Johnny Longden will be held Feb. 24 at 11 a.m.
		A longtime resident of Arcadia, Longden was living in Banning at the time of his death.
		The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be sent either to the Shoemaker Foundation or to Hospice, 264 N. Highland Ave., Suite 4B, Banning, CA 92220.
	www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=14176 (92 words)

	CNN/SI - Horse Racing - Pincay wins No. 8,834 to break Shoemaker's mark - Saturday December 11, 1999 02:40 AM
		Shoemaker had owned the victory mark since 1970, when he took it from Johnny Longden, and continued to add to it before retiring in 1990.
		Shoemaker surpassed Johnny Longden for the victory record with No. 6,033 in 1970.
		Longden had taken it from Englishman Gordon Richards in 1956.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /horse_racing/news/1999/12/10/pincay_record_ap (945 words)

	ESPN.com - Horse Racing - Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Longden has stroke
		BANNING, Calif. -- Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Longden, who rode Count Fleet to the Triple Crown in 1943, has suffered a stroke.
		Longden, 95, was resting Sunday at his home about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
		Longden became thoroughbred racing's winningest rider in 1956 when he broke the record of 4,870 set by Sir Gordon Richards.
	espn.go.com /horse/news/2002/0818/1419667.html (211 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- 'The Shoe' was leader – even in wheelchair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Longden is there to greet Shoemaker in winner's circle after No. 6,033 for Shoe.
		Shoemaker became the second rider of legendary status to die this year, joining Johnny Longden, who died in February at 96.
		Longden was in the winner's circle to greet Shoemaker.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20031013-9999_1s13shoe.html (1566 words)

	TRC THOROUGHBRED NOTEBOOK - March 7, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1966, Johnny Longden's victory in the last race of his record- breaking career was voted the greatest moment in the 32-year history of Santa Anita Park by a panel of racing experts.
		On March 12, 1966, the 59-year-old Longden, riding in the 32,413th race of a 40-year riding career and bothered by arthritis and a pinched nerve, won the San Juan Capistrano Handicap by a nose on George Royal, who was the 6-1 third choice in the nine- horse field.
		Longden, a native of England who was raised in Taber, Alberta, where he worked with mules in the coal mines, is still an avid fan of the sport.
	www.webcom.com /alauck/trc/trc96/trc0307.html (3273 words)

	Johnny Logan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Johnny Logan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnny Logan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Johnny Logan.
		Here you will find more informations about Johnny Logan.
		Johnny Logan can refer to a number of different people.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Johnny-Logan.html (97 words)

	Longden Desk - OB Equipment
		John Longden (better known as Johnny) who worked in London OBs for several years realised that there had to be a better solution to this rather unsatisfactory arrangement.
		Originally, the prototype was used by London OBs but the reputation of what became known as the Longden Music Desk spread rapidly and eventually one set of equipment was made for each of the Regions.
		Johnny Longden went on to build a larger stereo version in 1968 which became known as the 'three piece suite', the mixer consisting of three units with two equipment trolleys.
	www.roger.beckwith.btinternet.co.uk /bh/longden/longden.htm (1494 words)

	Busher: 1945 Horse of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Odom took over the job of conditioning Busher, and after the temporary ban on racing was lifted in May of 1945, Busher began her three-year-old career at Santa Anita with a five length triumph in an overnighter.
		Johnny Longden, her new regular rider, was in the saddle for the first time.
		Again challenging the colts, she met up with Colonel Bradley's Bymeabond in the Santa Anita Derby, and missed first money by a half-length, probably due to pilot error on the part of Johnny Longden, who was criticized for taking her wide.
	sky.prohosting.com /spiletta/UTHOF/busher.html (933 words)

	Count Fleet: 1943 Triple Crown Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnny Longden, the colt's jockey, happened upon another trainer contemplating the purchase of Count Fleet.
		Hertz agreed to keep the colt, seeing that Longden was willing to face the "danger" involved in riding him.
		He was shipped to Churchill Downs by rail, and jockey Johnny Longden rode with him, holding ice on the horse's damaged left rear.
	sky.prohosting.com /spiletta/UTHOF/countfleet.html (1471 words)

	JOHNNY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the JOHNNY Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the JOHNNY Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named JOHNNY at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/J/JOHNNY.htm (73 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Old Man Longden -- Dec. 08, 1947 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Johnny Longden, an old man in his trade, may not be the best jockey in the U.S., but he has won more races in 1947 than anyone else.
		At 37, when many successful jockeys are wealthy enough to sleep late, he is out at San Mateo's Bay Meadows track at 6 a.m., before the morning mists clear off.
		Jockey Longden is proud that he isn't slowing down.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,934147,00.html (166 words)

	Thoroughbred Times: News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Trainer Vance Longden, the son of Racing Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Longden, died on Monday in Solana Beach, California, after a bout with cancer.
		Vance Longden and his father were a formidable trainer-jockey combination in Southern California during the 1950s and ‘60s.
		Johnny Longden, who will turn 96 on February 14, has been in poor health after suffering a slight stroke last summer.—Jeff Lowe
	www.thoroughbredtimes.com /todaysnewsarchive/ttodaysnewsviewarchive.asp?ArchiveDate=01/08/2003 (5502 words)

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