Retirement
Battling weight gains throughout his career, Wayne Wright retired from riding in 1950. He then spent some time training horses until 1956 when he and his wife Nadia purchased an 80-acre (320,000 m2) farm next to where his sister lived near Wellington in Smith Valley, Nevada.
In 2003, eighty-six-year-old Wayne Wright died in hospital in Yerington, Nevada.
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