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American jockey
Laverne Andrew Fator
Laverne Fator, 1918
Occupation
Jockey Born (1899-10-21 ) October 21, 1899
Hailey, Idaho ,
United States Died May 16, 1936(1936-05-16) (aged 36)
Jamaica, New York ,
United States Career wins 1,075
Edgemere Handicap (1919)
Jerome Handicap (1919, 1922)
Manhattan Handicap (1919, 1922, 1928)
Walden Stakes (1919, 1928)
Gazelle Handicap (1920, 1925, 1926)
Philadelphia Handicap (1920)
Alabama Stakes (1921)
Brooklyn Handicap (1921)
Champagne Stakes (1921, 1930)
Empire City Derby (1921, 1925, 1927)
Fleetwing Handicap (1921, 1927)
Ladies Handicap (1921, 1926, 1929)
Saranac Handicap (1921, 1922)
Empire City Handicap (1922, 1925)
Saratoga Handicap (1922, 1923)
Travers Stakes (1922, 1927)
Carter Handicap (1922, 1925, 1926)
Phoenix Handicap (1923)
Excelsior Breeders' Cup Handicap (1923, 1929)
Gallant Fox Handicap (1923, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1933)
Paumonok Handicap (1923, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1933)
Pierrepont Handicap (1923, 1925, 1927)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1924, 1927)
Toboggan Handicap (1924)
Fall Highweight Handicap (1925)
Futurity Stakes (1925, 1926)
Hopeful Stakes (1925)
Bowie Handicap (1926)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1926)
Remsen Stakes (1926)
Twin City Handicap (1926)
Youthful Stakes (1927, 1933)
Champlain Handicap (1928, 1932)
Fashion Stakes (1928)
Hudson Stakes (1928, 1929, 1931)
Keene Memorial Stakes (1928)
Whitney Handicap (1928)
Tremont Stakes (1930)
Wilson Stakes (1931)
United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1925, 1926)
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (1955)
Grey Lag ,
Little Chief ,
Mad Play ,
Peanuts ,
Pompey
Laverne Andrew Fator (October 21, 1899 – May 16, 1936) was an American
Hall of Fame
jockey .
Born in
Hailey, Idaho , Laverne Fator and his brothers
Mark and Elmer all became jockeys. The most successful of the three, Laverne Fator's riding career began at small
bush tracks in the
Western United States . His first major win came in 1918 at
Oriental Park Racetrack in
Havana ,
Cuba . Returning to the United States, he raced on the
New York State circuit in a professional career that lasted through 1933. A contract jockey for
Rancocas Stable , in 1925 and 1926 he was the
United States Champion Jockey by earnings .
In the
American Classic Races , Laverne Fator rode in the
Kentucky Derby four times, earning his best finish in 1926 when he finished fifth aboard
Pompey . For the 1932 running, prominent stable owner
Edward R. Bradley offered top rider Laverne Fator his choice of the two horses he had entered. Fator chose the colt Brother Joe, leaving
Burgoo King for 19-year-old
Eugene James who won the race. Of his three mounts in the
Preakness Stakes , Fator's best result came aboard
Mad Play when he finished third in 1923.
Laverne Fator died in a fall from a Jamaica (N.Y.) Hospital window while awaiting an
operation . The cause of death was said by
TIME magazine to be suicide but it has been reported that he may have been disoriented from his illness and fell accidentally.
On its creation, Laverne Fator was inducted in the United States'
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955.
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