Oliver Eric Guerin, born on 23 October 1924 in Maringouin, Louisiana, the son of a Cajun blacksmith, was an American Hall of Fame jockey who began riding in 1941 at Narragansett Park and was the leading apprentice in the United States a year later. He rode Jet Pilot to victory in the 1947 Kentucky Derby for Elizabeth Arden's Maine Chance Farm, then joined Alfred G. Vanderbilt II's Sagamore Stable, where he rode the champion colt Native Dancer through an undefeated 1952 season and on to the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. He retired at age fifty-one after a thirty-four-year career that produced 2,712 winners, and he died on 21 March 1993.
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was an American Hall of Fame jockey
Competed In: Kentucky Derby, Biography, 1947
rode Jet Pilot to victory in the 1947 Kentucky Derby
Competed In: Preakness Stakes, Biography, 1953
the next two legs of the Triple Crown series, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes
Competed In: Belmont Stakes, Biography, 1953 Belmont
the next two legs of the Triple Crown series, the Preakness and Belmont Stakes
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