The first time Ron Turcotte rode Secretariat, he knew the horse was special. Maybe he didn’t know Secretariat would win the first Triple Crown in 25 years and set records in each race that still stand ...

Ron Turcotte, the jockey who rode the legendary Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973 and won more than 3,000 races over his two-decade career, died Friday morning of natural causes at his home in ...

“When it came to running, he could fly,” Turcotte once said of the famed horse Jerry Cooke/Sports Illustrated via Getty Ron Turcotte, the jockey who rode Secretariat to a Triple Crown in 1973 and ...

Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84. Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the ...

Secretariat's record-breaking victory in the 1973 Kentucky Derby remains the gold standard for horse racing.

Ron Turcotte, best known as the jockey for 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, and a beloved figure in the Thoroughbred racing community, died of natural causes on Aug. 22 in his Drummond home ...

The jockey who rode the legendary race horse Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, Ron Turcotte, has died at 84. Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard ...

Ron Turcotte, the legendary jockey who was inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame in 1979 for his achievements with Secretariat, has died. He was 84. Turcotte’s family announced his ...