SI.com The Doubleday book will be published in April, 1988. I must have been 4 or 5, and when she wasn’t looking, I climbed up on a fence near this old horse. was thrown from his horse and suffered a broken pelvis, a ruptured He thinks he sees an opening, but it’s just not there. I don’t tell Babbs or Harry what I’m thinking. I’m moving between horses, knowing I have to get back to the rail. I was there with some people who were shooting a television show about me, and as we sat around in her old house they asked her to tell the story of how she put me in a shoe box. Professional jockey. “Only time I’m going back,” Charlie said, “is if I have a real Derby horse.” Now Charlie was 73 and I was on his Derby horse. The year before, my Derby horse, Terrang, had finished 12th. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It was 1968. How sweet it is. Going into the first turn, I’ve got a good hold on Ferdinand. He also possessed a notably even temper and calm My pelvis is splintered in five places, my bladder is ruptured and my left leg is paralyzed. Winters, http://www.sportsillustrated.com/2003/more/10/12/obit_shoemaker.ap/index.html. The total purse money (through Dec. 27, 1987) won by the horses he has ridden is almost $118 million.

doctor used a child–sized metal pin to repair the injury, and I’m riding a horse called Bel Bush at Santa Anita. When a horse loafed, Shoe would get after him.

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October 13, 2003, p. B4. Horse jockey who won 8,833 horse races in his 40-year career. I really got interested in boxing. I don’t understand why it has to be like that. When I talk about retiring, he says, “Hey, Shoe, you know what a jockey is when he’s retired? Washington Post, The pain is the worst I’ve ever felt.

I don’t try to live beyond what I can afford. He’s just another little man.”. How sweet it is. Somebody began calling me Wee Willie, and that stuck for a while. One thing that became a legend about me was that I was put into a shoe box and shoved into the stove in my grandmother’s house when I was born. If I do, I’ll use up my horse early.

Then he went to Del Mar and worked for trainer George Reeves. — I stayed with my mother in Fabens, and then my younger brother, Lonnie, and I went to live part time with my grandfather. I think that two bad accidents in 15 months might make some guys take the hint. My mother said, “Momma, tell them the story about when you put him in the shoe box and the doctor said he wouldn’t live through the night.”, Grandma Harris said: “The doctor just laid you down on the bed and said there were no chance for you at all.

I know she has seen me win on TV, but I wish then that we had brought her with us from California for this race. I would go to school in El Monte in the mornings, and after school I’d rush over to the ranch and work. Ferdinand in the Kentucky Derby. It’s been said that I considered going into professional boxing, but it never crossed my mind. He got nationwide when in 2003, he won the most Breeders’ Cup races of any jockey with 26 Breeders’ Cup wins was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. When I did become a professional athlete, it was when I went into racing. No, I didn’t stick you in no oven. In 1986, when many thought the 54–year–old I didn’t make any excuses. I’m 38 years old now, and time is still on my side. My mother says everybody was scared when they came out of the house and saw me up on that old horse.

I was up on Ferdinand, and I was thinking, “Hey, I’m 54 years old, and here I am with a bunch of kids, some of them young enough to be my sons, and I’m going to ride against them in the biggest race of them all.”. I met a girl named Joyce when I was a freshman. The Shoe is fit again, I think. I ride Charlie’s French horse, Palace Music, in the John Henry Handicap and win again. returned to racing and won his first two races, but in April of 1969 he crashed and rolled his Ford Bronco. Horses I’d ridden had won more than $40 million in purses.

She still towers over me (I’m 4 feet, 11 inches), and she’s 73 years old. Ranch in La Puente, California.

losing a match. I’m caught in the middle. quoted sportswriter Jim Murray, who said, "No one ever rode a And that, too, started at El Monte High. In 1990, Shoemaker considered retiring from riding and becoming a trainer.

It is all here. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. But they don’t know Shoe and they don’t know anything about medicine. Shoemaker was I never become mean or sour. Rush Ferdinand early and he dies in the stretch. In 1954, I beat Hartack again for the riding title. I had earned more than $10 million, maybe closer to $12 million, but if I was pressed, I would say my net worth was less than $500,000. In March, 1949, Shoemaker rode in his first race on one of Reeves’ horses at Golden Gate Fields near San Francisco.

Becoming a jockey is learned. WHEN I MARRIED my third wife, Cindy, in March, 1978, we had a long talk about money. They’re pretty expensive--$150, $200, $250. I have to have my suits custom-made.

The odds are against me, but I’m not walking away. Pretty soon they move me to Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood, near Hollywood Park. October 13, 2003, p. C1; My wife is crying and she bends down and throws her arms around me and kisses me. Sixteen jockeys are fighting for position, and I think, “Hell, we’re all crazy, we’re all jockeys.” And now the others are streaming away toward the first turn. I had won the Kentucky Derby three times. When a horse was doing his best, Shoe left I’m hurt.

Rosemary Shoemaker, Mary Shoemaker, Thomas Whisler, William Roweand Mark Coleman, and many others are family members and associates of Bill. I’m running last, but I’m not going to chase them. His body measurements are not known as of now. My Aunt Effie was very small, and I always said she was the only one in the family I could look straight in the eye. Where had all my money gone? I think about my daughter, Amanda, who is 6 years old. X-rays show that my pelvis is broken and that my left sacroiliac joint is dislocated. On the Wednesday before the Derby, Harry got me a ride on a filly named Poona’s Day at Hollywood Park.

Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker, known as "The Shoe," rode 8,833 winning horses and won the Kentucky Derby four times. and his seemingly effortless riding style. Although he remained small throughout his life—topping out at Our careers were hooked up, and in 1957 I ran into him at the Kentucky Derby. When I went into the ring in the final bout of the Golden Gloves tournament, I was ready for this big, skinny kid who stood between me and a title. But his luck didn’t hold. Kerlan tells me I’ll have to do a lot of therapy before I ride again. Vincent Andrews keeps me down. His grandmother, in defiance of the doctor's decree,

IT WAS when I first went to school in Fabens that I realized I was smaller than other kids. It isn’t a born thing. I didn’t fight very much, but I was never a crybaby. Because I was so small, I had no real power in my punches, but I was real fast.

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Kerlan comes to my room in the hospital and talks to me a lot. I listen carefully. In 1949, Reeves introduced bug boy, or apprentice jockey, Shoemaker to agent Harry Silbert, who would remain Shoemaker’s agent until his death in 1987. I never worried

came back to racing and rode winning races for the next 20 years. At the time, his blood alcohol level

They wrote this so often that people believed it. My grandmother, Maude Harris, was 92 then, and she could remember just about everything that ever happened to our family. Another year at least.” Well, he raced all of 1987, and if all continues well he could break his own record as the oldest man to win a Kentucky Derby. By the time Pierce comes back in my direction, Kodiak Kid has clipped the heels of the horse in front of him and is down. Copyright 1988 by William Shoemaker and Barney Nagler. was doing his best or loafing. They didn’t have shoes that would fit me, and the shoulder pads made me look funny. winning.

A few years ago I went down to Fabens, which is on the Rio Grande, 30 miles downriver from El Paso, and found out the truth. She said, “You ride the horses at the track.” She talked about it some more and I got interested. He also has a dating history with jockey ‘Chantal Sutherland’ between 2008 to 2010 before she married to other man.

perfect build to be a jockey, and Shoemaker began working at the Suzy Q We wear down the leaders and win by 2 lengths.

I made the weight easy, and I beat everybody in my division. First it was Silent Shoe, then plain Shoe. We start picking up horses, turning into the backstretch.

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If I said I didn’t, I’d be lying. In the morning, I go out to Hollywood Park and jog around the empty track. That wasn’t true.