Tags: Jockey (Horse Racer).

Frank Catrone Jr. (born c.1904) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey best known for winning the 1965 Kentucky Derby as a trainer.Catrone stood 4 feet 9 inches tall. While selling newspapers at a stand outside Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs New York the diminutive 17-year-old was offered the chance to train to be a jockey by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Sam Hildreth.

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