Bill Shoemaker
The Shoe would've been 77 today.
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Thoughts on Horse Racing from an Economist/Horseplayer/Fan
Marshall Gramm marshall@equinometrics.com
Thoughts on Horse Racing from an Economist/Horseplayer/Fan
Marshall Gramm marshall@equinometrics.com
EQUINOMETRICS.COM: Bill Shoemaker
The Shoe would've been 77 today.
Last Five Books Read
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick (2010), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
(2005), Trial Run by Dick Francis (1978), Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner (1977), The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great
Thinkers by Mark Skousen (2001)
Didn't Ron Turcotte win the KD two times in a row, via Riva Ridge and Secretariat?
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Yes. Three other jockeys won back to back Derbys. Isaac Murphy in 1890 (Riley) and 1891 (Kingman); Jimmy Winkfield in 1901 (His Eminence) and 1902 (Alan-a-Dale); Eddie Delahoussaye in 1982 (Gato del Sol) and 1983 (Sunny's Halo).
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