Occupation Jockey Career wins 1,800+ | Name John Ruane Role Film director | |
Died September 3, 2006(2006-09-03) (aged 69)
Somers Point, New Jersey, U.S. Awards AACTA Award for Best Short Fiction Film Nominations AACTA Award for Best Direction Movies Death in Brunswick, Dead Letter Office, That Eye - the Sky, Cassandra, Queensland Similar People Boyd Oxlade, Ellery Ryan, Zoe Carides, John Flaus, John Clarke | ||
John V. Ruane (October 4, 1936 – September 3, 2006) was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.
Ruane began his career in 1957, competing on the New York State racing circuit where he rode for noted U.S. Racing Hall of Fame horse trainers such as John M. Gaver, Sr. and H. Allen Jerkens. He retired after forty-two years having ridden winners of a number of important Graded stakes races.
John Ruane was living in Ocean City, New Jersey at the time of his death from pulmonary complications in 2006.
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