Horse Racing
Does not include those who died in riding accident such as equestrian or horse racing, as there is a separate list for such, please refer to List of horse accidents. Also, does not include horses.
- Chris Antley, 34, American jockey, drug overdose (2000)
- Fred Archer, 29, English jockey, suicide (1886)
- Silvio Coucci, 27, American jockey, suicide (1942)
- Ron Hansen, 33, American jockey, car accident (1994)
- Frank Hayes, 34–35, American jockey, died from a heart attack while riding his horse Sweet Kiss to victory at Belmont Park (1923)
- Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer (1987)
- Jamie Kyne, 18, Irish jockey, arson (2009)
- Jan Wilson, 19, Scottish jockey, arson (2009)
- Kim Hyung-chil, 47, Korean jockey, died in Dec 2006 while attending the equestrian race in 2006 Asian Games (2006)
- Stathi Katsidis, 31, Australian jockey, cause of death unknown (2010)
- Arron Kennedy, 34, Australian jockey, cause of death, suicide (St Patrick's Day 2007)
Read more about this topic: List Of Sportspeople Who Died During Their Careers
Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or racing:
“We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller’s horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, “I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom.” “So it has,” answered the latter, “but you have not got half way to it yet.” So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)