Job Dean Jessop was an American

United States

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 Thoroughbred horse racing

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 jockey

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Born in Utah

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, Job Jessop was just eighteen years old when on August 9, 1944 as an apprentice jockey he won six races in one program at Ellis Park Racecourse in Henderson, Kentucky

Henderson, Kentucky

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. The following year, he won more races than any other jockey in the United States finishing the year with 290 victories, 103 more than his closest rival. In 1946 he was the leading jockey in America, finishing ahead of future Hall of Fame

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

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 inductees Ted Atkinson

Ted Atkinson

Theodore Francis Atkinson was a Canadian-born American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1957....

 and Eddie Arcaro

Eddie Arcaro

George Edward Arcaro , known professionally as Eddie Arcaro, was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey who won more American classic races than any other jockey in history and is the only rider to have won the U.S. Triple Crown twice...

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Of Jessop's four mounts in the Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

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, his best result was two third-place finishes. In 1946 he was third on Hampden behind eventual Triple Crown winner, Assault

Assault (horse)

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. Guiding the great Gallorette

Gallorette

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, he and she won the Queens County Handicap

Queens County Handicap

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 against males in 1947. In 1950 he won the Ashland Stakes

Ashland Stakes

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 and the following year rode Ruhe to victory in the Blue Grass Stakes

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 then finished third with the colt in that year's Derby. Among his other victories, Jessop rode in Vancouver, British Columbia, winning the 1961 B.C. Oaks with the filly

Filly

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, Be Famous. He was the regular rider of Triplicate.

Jessop retired from in 1970 and settled in Texas

Texas

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 where for a short time he was involved with training

Horse trainer

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 horses. He had three sons: Richard, Jeffery, and Job Jr. He died in 2001 in Boerne

Boerne, Texas

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 in Kendall County, Texas

Kendall County, Texas

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