(1916-02-19)February 19, 1916 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Died
November 14, 1997(1997-11-14) (aged 81) Miami, Florida, United States
Resting place
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery, Miami, Florida, United States
Career wins
4,779
Major racing wins
Jockey Club Gold Cup (10) Juvenile Stakes (7) National Stallion Stakes (7) Wood Memorial Stakes (9) Suburban Handicap (8) Withers Stakes (6) Kentucky Oaks (4)U.S. Triple Crown series: Kentucky Derby (5) Preakness Stakes (6) Belmont Stakes (6)
Racing awards
United States Triple Crown (1941, 1948) United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1940, 1942, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1958) George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1953) Big Sport of Turfdom Award (1974)
Honours
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1958) Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame (1971) Eddie Arcaro Stakes at Hialeah Park
Significant horses
Whirlaway, Citation, Ponder, Hoop Jr., Challedon, Kelso, Nashua, Mark-Ye-Well, Hill Prince, Bold Ruler, Sword Dancer, Real Delight
George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916 – November 14, 1997)[1] 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 one of the greatest jockeys in the history of American Thoroughbred horse racing. Arcaro was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. His parents, Pasquale and Josephine, were Italian immigrants and his father held a number of jobs, including taxi driver and operator of an illegal liquor enterprise during Prohibition. Arcaro was born prematurely, and weighed just three pounds at birth; because of this, he was smaller than his classmates and was rejected when he tried out for a spot on a baseball team. His full height would reach just five-foot, two inches. Eventually nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won his first race in 1932 at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico; he was 16 years old. In 1934, the inaugural year of Narragansett Park, Arcaro was a comparative unknown who rode many of his early career races at 'Gansett.[2]
^Christine, Bill (15 November 1997). "Eddie Arcaro, 'the Master,' Is Dead at 81". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
George Edward Arcaro (February 19, 1916 – November 14, 1997) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic...
Victory: 11½ lengths – Smarty Jones (2004) Most wins by a jockey: 6 – EddieArcaro (1941, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1957) Most wins by a trainer: 8 – Bob...
lengths for his owner, George Steinbrenner. Most wins by a jockey: 9 – EddieArcaro (1944, 1945, 1947 (2), 1949, 1950, 1956, 1957, 1958) Most wins by a trainer:...
Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Trained by Ben A. Jones and ridden by EddieArcaro, Whirlaway swept the Triple Crown in 1941. He holds the record for the...
Isaac Murphy (1890–91), Jimmy Winkfield (1901–02), Ron Turcotte (1972–73), Eddie Delahoussaye (1982–83), Calvin Borel (2009–10), and Victor Espinoza (2014–15)...
Competitive Edge (2015) (at distance of one mile) Most wins by a jockey 4 - EddieArcaro (1948, 1949, 1952, 1959) 4 - Pat Day (1987, 1991, 1993, 2000) Most wins...
wins by a horse: 2 – Challedon (1939 & 1940) Most wins by a jockey: 4 – EddieArcaro (1939, 1943, 1946, 1948) Most wins by a trainer: 4 – Ben A. Jones (1942...
Oscar White Sarah F. Jeffords 1-1/4 m 2:07.40 $16,450 1951 Battlefield EddieArcaro Bert Mulholland George D. Widener Jr. 1-1/4 m 2:06.20 $15,000 1950 Lights...
Wheatley Stable (1933, 1939, 1955, 1960, 1964) Most wins by a jockey: 5 – EddieArcaro (1945, 1946, 1948, 1955, 1961) 5 – Mike E. Smith (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998...
Elmwood Park, Illinois. The first induction ceremony honored Lou Ambers, EddieArcaro, Charley Trippi, Gino Marchetti, Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio, and Vince...
Goncalino Almeida Junior Alvarado Kim Andersen Jack Anthony Chris Antley Eddie Arcaro Fred Archer John Arnull Sam Arnull Cash Asmussen Andrea Atzeni Mary Bacon...
Six days later, Snider drowned while out fishing in the Florida Keys; EddieArcaro replaced him on Citation, going on to win the U.S. Triple Crown. The...
Derby, held on June 9, 1945. It was won by Hoop Jr., ridden by jockey EddieArcaro. Regularly held on the first Saturday of May, the 1945 edition of the...
Scurlock aboard, Loyal Legion, owned by Walter M. Jeffords, was ridden by EddieArcaro. In the space of two days in May 1947, Snider guided three different...
has never been equaled, and a record about which Hall of Fame jockey EddieArcaro said: "There is no chance that his record of winning will ever be surpassed...
Arcadia, California. He finished fourth, in front of a record crowd, to Eddie Delahoussaye, on Exemplary Leader. All told, Bill Shoemaker rode in a record...
Native Dancer and Swaps, who each won legs of the Triple Crown. Jockey EddieArcaro won both the 1948 and 1953 American Derby races at the track. In addition...
Derby on August 22. EddieArcaro got the mount after the horse he had been scheduled to ride, Jamie K, was withdrawn from the race. Arcaro had previously questioned...
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