Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. autographed 8x10 pose photo Jockey for SHAM **

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What a great 10x8 photo signed by the great legendary jockey Laffit Pincay Jr.
Laffit Pincay, Jr. learned to ride by watching his father who was a jockey at many tracks in Panama and
Venezuela
. He began his riding career in his native Panama and in 1966 prominent horseman
Fred W. Hooper
and agent
Camilo Marin
sponsored him to come to the United States and ride under contract. He started his American career at
Arlington Park
in
Chicago
and won eight of his first eleven races. During his career, Pincay Jr. was voted the prestigious
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award
in 1970 that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct exemplifies the very best example of participants in the sport of thoroughbred racing. In 1996, he was voted the
Mike Venezia Memorial Award
for "extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship". He has won the
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey
on five occasions and was the United States' leading jockey seven times.
In 1973, Pincay rode
Sham
, and together they won that year's Santa Anita Derby and placed second in the Wood Memorial behind
Angle Light
but ahead of their main rival,
Secretariat
. Sham was considered the best horse in the west, and they were second choice in the Kentucky Derby, once again behind Secretariat. Secretariat won the race, but Sham finished second, just 2/5 of a second behind. In the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, Sham was in striking distance in the stretch before losing to Secretariat by two lengths. In the Belmont, Pincay was instructed to keep Sham close to Secretariat. They traveled down the backstretch together, but Sham tired and fell back to finish last of five while Secretariat pulled away from the field for a 31-length victory.
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