Tags: Jockey (Horse Racer).

Gordon P. Glisson (October 31 1930 – February 23 1997) was an American Champion Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.Born in Winnsboro South Carolina at age fifteen he and his mother moved to Seattle Washington. He began working at the Longacres Racetrack in nearby Renton Washington then as an apprentice jockey rode in his first race at the Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha Nebraska.

award
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, United States Champion Jockey by wins, George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
birth date
1930-10-31
birth place
Winnsboro South Carolina, United States
death date
1997-02-23
occupation
Jockey
race
Santa Anita Derby, Saratoga Special Stakes, Los Angeles Handicap, Kentucky Oaks, Hollywood Gold Cup, La Jolla Handicap, Palomar Handicap, San Felipe Stakes, San Luis Rey Handicap, Del Mar Debutante Stakes, Santa Maria Handicap
race horse
Rejected (horse), Old_Rockport

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