Manuel Ycaza

Carlos Manuel De Ycaza, known as Manny Ycaza, was born on 1 February 1938 and died on 16 July 2018. He was a Panamanian American jockey who led the way for Latin American jockeys in the United States, having begun riding ponies at age six and professionally at fourteen in Panama before emigrating to the United States in 1956. Hired by Harry F. Guggenheim's Cain Hoy Stable for 1959, he won the Washington, D.C. International in 1959 and 1960, the 1963 Queen's Plate and the 1964 Belmont Stakes on Quadrangle, which ended Northern Dancer's Triple Crown bid. He won 2,367 races at a 22.4 percent strike rate and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1977.