Legendary Secretariat Jockey Ron Turcotte Dead
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Ron Turcotte, who lived in Drummond, New Brunswick, just across the border from Van Buren, died Friday at age 84.
Ron Turcotte, the jockey who rode the legendary Secretariat to Triple Crown glory, died aged 84 on Friday.
Turcotte famously swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont with Secretariat to win the first Triple Crown in 25 years.
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Sovereignty missed his chance at immortality in the Triple Crown, but the three-year-old thoroughbred still has an opportunity to do something never done before in horse racing. The Travers Stakes is known as the Midsummer Derby at the Graveyard of Champions.
When Triple Crown winner Secretariat stopped racing in 1973, he retired to a stud farm in Kentucky, where he spent the next 16 years in equine ease, siring 663 foals and maintaining his playful personality to the end.