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A lifelong friend of New Brunswick’s world-famous jockey, Ron Turcotte, said he’s going to miss Turcotte more for the humble and kind man he was than for being a great athlete. CBC | Sports News
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Triumph to tragedy: Ron Turcotte and his family rose from deep poverty to the peak of horse racing
Horse racing expert Curtis Stock tells a complete story of the New Brunswick family who knew triumph and tragedy in almost equal portions. From Secretariat rider Ron Turcotte through to Yves, the youngest brother to take the reins. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, dead at 84
Ron Turcotte guided Secretariat to an emphatic American Triple Crown sweep in 1973. So dominant was that performance that Secretariat still holds the records he set that year in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont. Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner Leonard Lusky that the jockey died of natural causes at his home in Drummond, N.B., on Friday. ...
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