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What happened to the Cajun jockeys?
Posted on 5/4/19 at 9:28 pm
Posted on 5/4/19 at 9:28 pm
Damn illegals taking our jobs!
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Posted on 5/4/19 at 10:06 pm to yaboidarrell
Mais dey got fat dem
Posted on 5/4/19 at 10:14 pm to yaboidarrell
They are hawking bourbon street chicken at malls across the country.
Posted on 5/4/19 at 10:20 pm to yaboidarrell
They went the way of races being won by the horse that finished first.
Posted on 5/4/19 at 10:33 pm to yaboidarrell
Bo Rail didn't get da rail
Posted on 5/5/19 at 12:21 am to yaboidarrell
No more bush tracks. That’s where they started early in life
Posted on 5/5/19 at 1:14 am to fatboydave
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Bo Rail didn't get da rail
Was the first and only National Cajun jockey anybody ever heard of.
So maybe he retired.
But the history of the sport in National races is short white guys from California and a bunch of dudes... Venezueluans, Panamanians and Mexicans.
So nothing really happened, the guy came and went.,,and he was considered an unlikely success story on the National stage usually riding local races.
This post was edited on 5/5/19 at 1:17 am
Posted on 5/5/19 at 2:29 am to yaboidarrell
No more bush tracks. That’s where all the Cajun jockeys would start and learn. When they stopped that there were no more Cajun jockeys coming thru.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 2:42 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Was the first and only National Cajun jockey anybody ever heard of
Bruh,do you even Kent Desormeaux?
Posted on 5/5/19 at 6:41 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Was the first and only National Cajun jockey anybody ever heard of.
Two of the top 10 jockeys by win of all times are from Louisiana with 3 wins each
Borel in 2007, 2009, and 2010.
Desormeaux in 1998, 2000, and 2008
And the first Cajun rider to win the derby, Eddie Delahoussaye, won 2 in 1982 & 1983
And last, but not least, Randy Romero, who never won the Kentucky derby but did win the Breeders cup 3 times.
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But the history of the sport in National races is short white guys from California and a bunch of dudes... Venezueluans, Panamanians and Mexicans.
The history is short, light men. The fact that the trend is south of the border now has more to do with the size of folks than anything else.
Who are the historically great Jockeys fro Cali.
I’m old and the 2 jockeys that come to mind for me that I recall racing or hearing about as the greatest historically are Eddie Arcaro and Willie Shoemaker. Form Ohio and Texas respectively. But I haven’t followed the sport like I used to in a few decades.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 7:36 am to mdomingue
Ronald Ardoin from Carencro won many riding titles in LA and TX tracks in the 70s-90s. Won over 5,000 races and rode in the KY Derby twice. He was tough to beat at LA Downs back in the day.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:07 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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Bruh,do you even Kent Desormeaux?
The Pride Of Maurice!
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:15 am to yaboidarrell
They got old and retired.
And you’re correct, more Messicans now. Same as in Bull riding. To the Messicans credit, they’re very good in both sports.
And you’re correct, more Messicans now. Same as in Bull riding. To the Messicans credit, they’re very good in both sports.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:20 am to tigerinthebueche
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And you’re correct, more Messicans now. Same as in Bull riding. To the Messicans credit, they’re very good in both sports.
Bull riding is more Brazilians and South American countries than Mexicans right now
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:29 am to southernelite
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Bull riding is more Brazilians and South American countries than Mexicans right now
Might be true of horse racing as well, I know it was a while back. People assume Spanish name equals Mexican because, we’ll, you’d have to ask them why they do that. People make assumptions based on the general population but specific skill sets and cultures usually drives things like racing and other sports. Look at baseball, when you see Hispanic names, if you don’t follow baseball, you might think Mexican. If you do, you go to a few other Latin American countries, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and such. Though Cuban names seem to vary a little from the traditional Hispanic names.
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:39 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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But the history of the sport in National races is short white guys
Clearly you don't know the history of racing in America.
The is the first jockey enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Saratoga, New York
Cajuns are more than just Borel
Calvin Borel
Eddie Delahoussaye
Craig Perret
Randy Romero
Shane Sellers
Kent Desormeaux
Robby Albarado
Joe Talmo
Fell free to add others
In the sport of kings, white was the minority not the majority
Posted on 5/5/19 at 8:56 am to Cheese Grits
And borel isn’t retired he still rides at oak lawn
Posted on 5/5/19 at 10:32 am to Cheese Grits
Regarding the black jockeys. They dominated the ranks in the early days. A lady wrote a book about it. From an article she wrote:
The fellow in the pic, Isaac Murphy, was born a slave in Kentucky. He won three Kentucky Derbys between 1884 and 1891. Nobody else pulled that off until 1945.
How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby
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When Marlon St. Julien rode the Derby in 2000, he became the first black man to get a mount since 1921.
It wasn’t always this way. ... In the 19th century – when horse racing was America’s most popular sport – former slaves populated the ranks of jockeys and trainers, and black men won more than half of the first 25 runnings of the Kentucky Derby. But in the 1890s – as Jim Crow laws destroyed gains black people had made since emancipation – they ended up losing their jobs.
The fellow in the pic, Isaac Murphy, was born a slave in Kentucky. He won three Kentucky Derbys between 1884 and 1891. Nobody else pulled that off until 1945.
How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby
Posted on 5/5/19 at 10:47 am to yaboidarrell
Posted on 5/5/19 at 11:05 am to Twenty 49
If memory serves, he was born on Race Street next to the old track downtown that closed due to the Great Depression and led to the creation of Keeneland. What many do not know is that the Green "KA" pole at the entrance of Keeneland was not for Keeneland Association as many think but was salvaged from the old downtown track.
If memory also serves, Belle Breezing (the Belle Wattling character from Gone with the Wind) had her house (bordello) not far from where Murphy grew up.
If memory also serves, Belle Breezing (the Belle Wattling character from Gone with the Wind) had her house (bordello) not far from where Murphy grew up.
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