To continue my look at well-known El Pasoans, this week I'll look at jockey Willie Shoemaker. He was born Aug. 19, 1931, in Fabens. At the time of his birth he weighed 2 1/2 pounds, and the doctor ...

Aboard a lackluster hayburner named Strathnaver, Jockey Willie Shoemaker was having traffic troubles, too. Bottled up in the backstretch, he slipped his mount through a narrow gap on the rail ...

Jockey Willie Shoemaker is usually a highly relaxed performer; he hunches up over his mount’s neck and almost seems to let matters take their course. But, riding a colt named The Hoop last week ...

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This year's Derby, which was the sixth that Calumet has won, will probably go down in the annals as the Lucky Derby, because Willie Shoemaker who rode Gallant Man, mistook the 16th pole for the ...

The most important item from California was Willie Shoemaker's accident. In a claiming race at Santa Anita early last week, his mount stumbles over a horse that had fallen in a jam at the turn ...