Walter Miller (jockey)
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Walter Miller (1890–1959) was an American jockey.[1][2][3]
Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
He rode in his first race at age 14.[5] At the age of 16, he won 388 races, a record not broken until Anthony DeSpirito did it in 1952. Between the years 1905 and 1908 Miller won 1,094 races from 4,336 mounts for an extraordinary 25.2 winning percentage.[2][3][5][7] He led the U.S. in victories in both 1906 and 1907.[8]
In 1906, he won the Preakness on Whimsical.[8][9] He also won the Travers Stakes, Alabama Stakes, Champagne Stakes, Saratoga Special Stakes, and Brooklyn Handicap.[8]
He was the United States National Riding Champion in 1906 and 1907.[3][5][10]
In his career, more than half the time his horse finished "in the money".[5][8] On July 29, 1906, Walter Miller rode five winners on a single racecard at Brighton Beach Race Course.[11] He set a record by riding eight consecutive winners, over a two-day period at Benning Race Track.[5] His career ended in the United States after he gained weight as a late teenager.[8] In 1909 and 1910 he rode primarily in Australia and Europe where weight restrictions were less stringent.[8]
Walter Miller was inducted into the U.S. Racing Racing Hall of Fame in 1955, into the Jockey Hall of Fame in 1957,[citation needed] and into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.[5][8]
External links
Winning the Futurity, 1915 silent film made by the Walter Miller Feature Film Company [1]
References
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- ^ a b c d Peter S. Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes; An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. ISBN 9781561719075. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history. ISBN 9780881259698. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Walter Miller". Jewishsports.net. April 3, 1906. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ "Jews In American Sports". Jews in Sports. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ "Under the Wire". TIME. January 12, 1953. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g "National Museum of Racing, Hall of Fame, Jockeys". Racingmuseum.org. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica almanac 2008. 2009. ISBN 9781593394752. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Ilana Abramovitch, Seán Galvin (2002). Jews of Brooklyn. ISBN 9781584650034. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ New York Times, July 29, 1906