Howard Douglas Grant (c. 1939 – August 1, 2018) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he began his jockey apprenticeship as a seventeen-year-old at Wheeling Downs, West Virginia and won his first race on October 9, 1956, at Cranwood Park Race Course in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] During his twenty-four-year career, he competed primarily at Middle Atlantic racetracks and in 1959 rode four winners on a single racecard at Bowie Race Track,[2] repeating that feat again in 1968 at the Atlantic City Race Course.[3] He died August 1, 2018, aged 79.[4]
Riding titles
editGrant won the Gulfstream Park riding title in 1963.[5] In the early 1970s he began riding in California where he won an Oak Tree Racing Association and a Del Mar racetrack riding championship in 1971.[6]
Like many jockeys, Howard Grant battled weight gain from early in his career,[7] and by the middle part of the 1970s the problem frequently limited his number of mounts.
References
edit- ^ The New Yorker - July 27, 1957
- ^ "Hartford Courant - March 29, 1959 article titled "Jockey Grant Has Big Outing At Bowie Track"". Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "Hartford Courant - August 24, 1968". Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ Privman, Jay (August 3, 2018). "Howard Grant, top rider from 1960s and '70s, has died at age 79". drf.com. Daily Race Form. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
- ^ Gulfstream Park 2017-2018 Media Guide Archived 2018-07-25 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved July 16, 2018
- ^ Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Media Guides Retrieved July 16, 2018
- ^ Miami News - December 13, 1966[permanent dead link]