Tags: Jockey (Horse Racer).

Alonzo Lonnie Clayton (1876 – March 17 1917) was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing described by author Edward Hotaling as one of the great riders of the New York circuit all through the 1890s” and who holds the record as the youngest jockey to ever win the Kentucky Derby.An African American Lonnie Clayton was born in Kansas City Missouri one of the nine children of Robert and Evaline Clayton.

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award
Churchill Downs
birth place
Kansas City Missouri, United States
death date
1917-03-17
occupation
Jockey
race
Kentucky Derby, Travers Stakes, Arkansas Derby, Kentucky Oaks, Philip H. Iselin Stakes, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Champagne Stakes (United States), Clark Handicap, Jerome Stakes
race horse
Azra (horse)

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