Eric Guerin

Tags: Jockey (Horse Racer).

Oliver Eric Guerin (23 October 1924 – 21 March 1993) is an American Hall of Fame jockey. Eric Guerin was born in Maringouin Louisiana in Cajun backwater country twenty-four miles west of Baton Rouge. The son of an impoverished Cajun blacksmith older cousin Norman Leblanc had become a jockey then a horse trainer and in 1938 the fourteen-year-old Guerin quit school to go to work for his cousin at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans.

award

Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey

birth date

1924-10-23

birth place

Maringouin Louisiana, United States

death date

1993-03-21

honours

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame

occupation

Jockey

race

Kentucky Derby, Travers Stakes, Saratoga Special Stakes, Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, Go For Wand Handicap, Arlington Classic, Withers Stakes, Tremont Stakes, Ladies Handicap, United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, Wood Memorial Stakes, Alabama Stakes, Beldame Stakes, Carter Handicap, Coaching Club American Oaks, Comely Stakes, Gazelle Stakes, Hopeful Stakes, Manhattan Handicap, Matron Stakes (United States), Metropolitan Handicap, Mother Goose Stakes, Personal Ensign Stakes, Prioress Stakes, Test Stakes, Whitney Handicap, Belmont Futurity Stakes, Peter Pan Stakes, Astoria Stakes

race horse

Native Dancer, Jet Pilot, Berlo, Your Host, Grecian Queen, Idun (horse), Bed O' Roses, One Count, Blue Peter (American horse), Battlefield_(horse)

wins

2712