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:
“By the “mud-sill” theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be—all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“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)