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'Race' and Ethnicity of US Jockeys Past and Present

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    'Race' and Ethnicity of US Jockeys Past and Present

    I am supervising a thesis on horseracing (for Sociology of Sport) and am interested in how jockey numbers in the US have fluctuated by 'race' and ethnicity. This article shows that black jockeys used to be very common

    https://journals.openedition.org/tra...a/5480?lang=en

    More recently, Panamanians and other Latinx jockeys have been very important:

    https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/a...20last%20names.

    ​​​​​​​I am interests in insights into these trends.

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    There are going to be important regional variations

    Jockeys at New York thoroughbred tracks have been majority Latinx for as long as I have been aware of horse racing, while Churchill Downs had many more Appalachian jockeys and tracks in Louisiana and Texas had a lot of Cajuns. Blacks were still very common as grooms and exercise riders here when I was a kid, but the entire track community below the level of trainers has become very Latinx in the interim.

    Harness Racing is a completely different demographic and has traditionally been very Canadian and particularly Qu?b?cois around here,

    The Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs is likely to have archival material that would be helpful to your student.

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      Many thanks.

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