April 3, 2024
Secretariat signed Ron Turcotte Belmont autograph Black-White Classic 16x20
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Secretariat signed Ron Turcotte Black-White Classic 16x20 100% AUTHENTIC GUARANTEED GLOBAL AUTHENTICATED CERT # GV 25685 Ronald Joseph Morel Turcotte , CM (born July 22, 1941 in Drummond, New Brunswick , Canada ) is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse jockey best known as the rider of Secretariat , winner of the U.S. Triple Crown in 1973.Turcotte began his career in Toronto as a hot walker for E. P. Taylor 's Windfields Farm in 1959, but he was soon wearing the silks and winning races. As an apprentice jockey he rode Windfields' Northern Dancer to his first victory. He gained prominence with his victory aboard Tom Rolfe in the 1965 Preakness Stakes . Turcotte soon found himself working with Canadian trainer Lucien Laurin at the racetrack in Laurel, Maryland . In 1972 he rode Riva Ridge to victory in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes .[ 1] Turcotte became internationally famous in 1973 when he rode Secretariat to win the first Triple Crown in 25 years. He was North America 's leading stakes-winning jockey in 1972 and 1973. He became the first jockey to win back-to-back Kentucky Derbys since Jimmy Winkfield in 1902 and is the only jockey to ever have won five of the six consecutive Triple Crown races.He was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct
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