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Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM
Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian order and is the centrepiece of the Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada. Membership in the order is accorded to those who exemplify the order's Latin motto, taken from Epistle to the Hebrews 11:16, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "They desire a better country."...
 (born July 22, 1941 in Drummond
Drummond, New Brunswick

Drummond is a Canada village in Victoria County, New Brunswick, New Brunswick.It is located in rolling farm land approximately 5 kilometres southeast of Grand Falls, New Brunswick; roughly 95% of its residents are Francophone....
, New Brunswick
New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
) is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred
Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
 race horse jockey
Jockey

In sport, a jockey is one who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing; however, camel jockey profession is slowly being replaced by robotics....
 best known as the jockey of U.S. Triple Crown
United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races for three-year-old horses run in May and early June of each year....
 Champion
Eclipse Award

The Eclipse Award is an United States thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th century Great Britain racehorse and Father, Eclipse ....
, Secretariat
Secretariat (horse)

Secretariat was an United States thoroughbred racehorse. Secretariat won the 1973 United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and set still-standing track records in two of the three races in the Series, the Kentucky Derby , and the Belmont Stakes ....
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Turcotte began his career in Toronto as a hot walker for E. P. Taylor
E. P. Taylor

Edward Plunket Taylor, was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred horse racing. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E....
's Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
 in 1959, but he was soon wearing the silks and winning races. As an apprentice jockey he rode Windfields' great Northern Dancer
Northern Dancer

Northern Dancer was a Canada-bred Thoroughbred horse and the most successful Father of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....
 to his first victory. He gained prominence with his victory aboard Tom Rolfe
Tom Rolfe

The racehorse Tom Rolfe was one of the best American sons of the great racehorse and sire Ribot . His dam was Pocahontas, from whom he takes his name ....
 in the 1965 Preakness Stakes
Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race 1-3/16 mile thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses, held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland....
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Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte, CM
Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian order and is the centrepiece of the Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada. Membership in the order is accorded to those who exemplify the order's Latin motto, taken from Epistle to the Hebrews 11:16, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "They desire a better country."...
 (born July 22, 1941 in Drummond
Drummond, New Brunswick

Drummond is a Canada village in Victoria County, New Brunswick, New Brunswick.It is located in rolling farm land approximately 5 kilometres southeast of Grand Falls, New Brunswick; roughly 95% of its residents are Francophone....
, New Brunswick
New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
) is a Hall of Fame thoroughbred
Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
 race horse jockey
Jockey

In sport, a jockey is one who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing; however, camel jockey profession is slowly being replaced by robotics....
 best known as the jockey of U.S. Triple Crown
United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races for three-year-old horses run in May and early June of each year....
 Champion
Eclipse Award

The Eclipse Award is an United States thoroughbred horse racing award named after the 18th century Great Britain racehorse and Father, Eclipse ....
, Secretariat
Secretariat (horse)

Secretariat was an United States thoroughbred racehorse. Secretariat won the 1973 United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and set still-standing track records in two of the three races in the Series, the Kentucky Derby , and the Belmont Stakes ....
.

Turcotte began his career in Toronto as a hot walker for E. P. Taylor
E. P. Taylor

Edward Plunket Taylor, was a Canadian business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred horse racing. Known to his friends as "Eddie," he is universally recorded as "E....
's Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm

Windfields Farm is a six square kilometre thoroughbred Stud farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The first stable and breeding operation of E....
 in 1959, but he was soon wearing the silks and winning races. As an apprentice jockey he rode Windfields' great Northern Dancer
Northern Dancer

Northern Dancer was a Canada-bred Thoroughbred horse and the most successful Father of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history"....
 to his first victory. He gained prominence with his victory aboard Tom Rolfe
Tom Rolfe

The racehorse Tom Rolfe was one of the best American sons of the great racehorse and sire Ribot . His dam was Pocahontas, from whom he takes his name ....
 in the 1965 Preakness Stakes
Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race 1-3/16 mile thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses, held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland....
. Turcotte soon found himself working with Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 trainer Lucien Laurin
Lucien Laurin

Lucien Laurin was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer.Laurin's career in thoroughbred horse racing began in 1929 as a jockey at Blue Bonnets Raceway in Montreal, Quebec....
 at the racetrack in Laurel, Maryland
Laurel, Maryland

Laurel is a Maryland, United States city located midway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, in northern Prince George's County, Maryland....
. In 1972 he rode Riva Ridge
Riva Ridge

Riva Ridge was a thoroughbred horse racing, the winner of the 1972 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. He was owned and bred by the Meadow Stable of Christopher Chenery....
 to victory in the Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
 and the Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes

The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious United States Graded stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes....
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Ron Turcotte became internationally famous in 1973 when he rode Secretariat
Secretariat (horse)

Secretariat was an United States thoroughbred racehorse. Secretariat won the 1973 United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, and set still-standing track records in two of the three races in the Series, the Kentucky Derby , and the Belmont Stakes ....
 to the first Triple Crown in 25 years. He was North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
's leading stakes-winning jockey in 1972 and 1973. He became the first jockey to win back-to-back Kentucky Derbys since Jimmy Winkfield in 1902 and is the only jockey to ever have won five of the six consecutive Triple Crown races.

He was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack....
 that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct exemplifies the very best example of participants in the sport of thoroughbred racing. He is the first person from Thoroughbred racing ever to be appointed a member of the Order of Canada
Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian order and is the centrepiece of the Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada. Membership in the order is accorded to those who exemplify the order's Latin motto, taken from Epistle to the Hebrews 11:16, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "They desire a better country."...
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Turcotte's career ended in 1978 following a tumble from his horse (named Flag of Leyte Gulf) during a race at Belmont Park
Belmont Park

Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York, New York, in Nassau County, New York, Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead....
 that left him a paraplegic. He was immediately inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of United States thoroughbred horse racings, jockeys, and trainer#Trainer ....
 in 1979. He was voted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame

The New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1970 to honor outstanding athletes, teams and sport builders in the Canada province of New Brunswick....
 and in 1980 was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame is a hall of fame located in Toronto and established in 1955 to "preserve the record of Canada sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canada's heritage of sport." ...
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Ron Turcotte's Riding Career from 1961-78:
  • Number of Mounts: 20,281
  • Number of Winners: 3,032
  • Winning Percentage: 14.9%