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Full name
  
Jockeys' Guild

Website
  
www.jockeysguild.com

Country
  
United States

Founded
  
1940

Key people
  
John Velazquez, Chairman G. R. Carter, Vice Chairman Jon Court, Secretary

Office location
  
Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Profiles

The Jockeys' Guild Inc. is an American trade association based in Lexington, Kentucky, representing thoroughbred horse racing and American quarter horse professional jockeys. The organization filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in bankruptcy court in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 12, 2007.

Established in 1940, the organization's founding members consisted of many of the leading jockeys of the day including Eddie Arcaro, Ray Workman, Johnny Longden, Alfred Robertson, Charley Kurtsinger, Red Pollard and Harry Richards. The Jockeys' Guild founding board was made up of:

  • Harry C. Richards - President
  • Lester Balaski - 1st Vice President
  • Eddie Arcaro - 2nd Vice President
  • Raymond Workman - 3rd Vice President
  • Irving Anderson - Treasurer
  • On February 24, 2001, the Thoroughbred Times published an article captioned A debt of remembrance that tells the story of the important work by jockey Tommy Luther that led to the Guild's creation. The story recounted the influence on Luther when he was part of the horrific circumstances North American jockeys lived under at the time fellow jockey Earl "Sandy" Graham was killed while racing at Polo Park Racetrack in Winnipeg, Manitoba in September 1927. [1]

    Presidents

  • Harry C. Richards: 1940-1943
  • Sterling Young: 1943-1949
  • Eddie Arcaro: 1949-1962
  • Sam Boulmetis: 1962-1967
  • William Boland: 1967-1969
  • Walter Blum: 1969-1975
  • Mike Venezia: 1975-1981
  • Bill Shoemaker: 1981-1989
  • Jerry D. Bailey: 1989-1996
  • Gary Stevens: 1996-2000
  • Pat Day: 2000-2001
  • Tomey Jean Swan: 2001 (Acting)
  • L. Wayne Gertmenian: 2001-2005
  • Darrell Haire: 2005-2006 (Acting)
  • Dwight Manley: 2006-2007
  • John R. Velazquez: 2007–present
  • References

    Jockeys' Guild Wikipedia