George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916–November 14, 1997), known professionally as Eddie 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 the greatest jockey in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. Eventually nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico. 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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... Arcaro also won the Suburban Handicap eight times, the Wood Memorial Stakes nine times and the Jockey Club Gold Cup ten times ... In international competition, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto Arcaro won the 1953 Queen's Plate (Canada's most prestigious race) at Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, he won the 1954 Washington, D.C ... In 1953 Arcaro was voted the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, and in 1958 he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New ...
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... (7) Eddie Arcaro, Jerry Bailey (6) Year Jockey Mounts Wins Earnings 1908 Joe Notter Not found Not found $464,322 1910 Carroll H. 1939 Basil James 191 ... $353,333 1940 Eddie Arcaro 132 ... $343,661 1941 Don Meade 210 ... $398,627 1942 Eddie Arcaro 123 ... $481,949 1943 Johnny Longden 173 ... $573,276 1944 Ted ...
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