Jockey Abe Hawkins ... when he was considered the 3-year-old male horse of that year. He has a race named for him at Churchill Downs, where a life-sized bronze statue of him stands.

Seabiscuit’s jockey that day, George Woolf, slowed him down, allowing War Admiral to catch up. “Once a horse gives Seabiscuit the old look-in-the-eye,” Red Pollard, sidelined by an injury ...

Yanagida, a rider based in New Zealand, died days after he was trampled and run over by horses at Cambridge Jockey Club Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE.