I bet this has never happened in horse racing history!

[Indian Charlie]

Just now, Indian Way set the Philly Park 6f track record, going 107.3

Sure, another day another great IC filly, but what makes this race really remarkable is that the track record setting winner was ridden by a jockey with a Jewish Name. David Cohen.

Is this the first time ever that a track record was set with a Jewish jockey riding?

[jwkniska]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Just now, Indian Way set the Philly Park 6f track record, going 107.3

Sure, another day another great IC filly, but what makes this race really remarkable is that the track record setting winner was ridden by a jockey with a Jewish Name. David Cohen.

Is this the first time ever that a track record was set with a Jewish jockey riding?

don't remember if it was a track record, but he won the sprint in Dubai that could have been a track record (tried finding it on their website, but didn't see the track records).
Cohen IS jewish. has a star of david on his pants (instead of an ad)... which was bigtime news when he ran in Dubai.

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Just now, Indian Way set the Philly Park 6f track record, going 107.3

Sure, another day another great IC filly, but what makes this race really remarkable is that the track record setting winner was ridden by a jockey with a Jewish Name. David Cohen.

Is this the first time ever that a track record was set with a Jewish jockey riding?

Nope, it's not the first time. Walter Blum set an Aqueduct track record while riding Gun Bow in the 1964 Brooklyn Hdcp. (Thank you, Google!)

--Dunbar

[Left Bank]

Why does it matter that he is a Jew?

[eajinabi]

Originally Posted by Left Bank

Why does it matter that he is a Jew?

Exactly!!!

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Just now, Indian Way set the Philly Park 6f track record, going 107.3

Sure, another day another great IC filly, but what makes this race really remarkable is that the track record setting winner was ridden by a jockey with a Jewish Name. David Cohen.

Is this the first time ever that a track record was set with a Jewish jockey riding?

Is Fragoso Jewish?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Left Bank

Why does it matter that he is a Jew?

I dunno. Why don't you ask a Muslim or a Christian that question?

[eajinabi]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

I dunno. Why don't you ask a Muslim or a Christian that question?

That question is for a different message board.

[Kasept]

The terrific blogger COLIN'S GHOST, who focuses on legendary, forgotten or obscure racing history, happens to have just done a piece up about Colin's Jewish rider Walter Miller.

http://www.colinsghost.org/2009/06/c...er-miller.html

[Kasept]

History of Jews In Horse Racing

An English Jew named Lamego was engaged in this sport as early as the 18th century. It was the Rothschild family, however, that registered the first major Jewish success on the English turf when in 1871 a horse owned by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild won the Epsom Derby. Leopold Leon de Rothschild (Mr. Acton), another member of the English branch of the famed banking family, sent out Derby winners in 1879 and 1904. Also active in English racing during this period were Baron Maurice de Hirsch, who gave all his racing winnings to charity, and Sir Ernest Cassel. Philip Levi (1821-1898) was an early patron of the sport in Australia. In the United States, Ben Cohen was an officer of the Maryland Jockey Club in 1830, and six years later a horse owned by Aaron Philip Hart won the first running of the King's Plate in Canada.

America's leading jockey before the Civil War was Jacob Pincus (1838-1918) who began to ride in 1852. Pincus became a trainer and in 1881 he saddled the first American-bred horse to win England's Epsom Derby. One of those who employed Pincus as a trainer was August Belmont, who had entered the sport in 1866 as a founder of Jerome Park and was the first president of the American Jockey Club. This club included many Jewish horse owners. Other prominent American owners and trainers in the 19th century were David Gideon (1846-1929), Charles Fleischmann (1834-1897), Moses Goldblatt (1869-1941), and Julius (Jake) Cahn (1864-1941), owner and trainer of the 1897 Kentucky Derby winner, Typhoon II.

Georges Stern (1882-1928) of France earned the title "King of the Jockeys" during a career that ran from 1899 to 1926. During that time Stern won almost every major European event, including the 1911 Epsom Derby. America's Walter Miller (1890- ), another successful jockey of the same era, is a member of the national Jockeys Hall of Fame. He had campaigned in the United States (1904-09) and Europe before weight problems forced his retirement. Miller was the American riding champion in 1906-07 and had ridden 388 winners in 1906 -- a record that lasted until 1952. Other outstanding American jockeys were Lewis Morris; the Renick brothers, Joseph (1910- ) and Samuel William ("Sammy"; 1912- ); Robert Merritt (1912- ), Willie Harmatz (1931- ); and Walter ("Mousy") Blum (1934- ) who rode over 3,000 winners from 1953 and was national riding champion in 1963-64. Harry ("Cocky") Feldman (1915-1950) was the national riding champion of South Africa seven times during an 18-year career. He was killed in a riding accident, as was Britain's Reginald Sassoon (1893-1933), an amateur steeplechase rider. Nikolai Nasibov was the Soviet Union's leading jockey in the 1960s.

The most noted American trainers, who were also owners and breeders, were Hirsch Jacobs (1904-1970) who saddled more winners (3,596) than any other trainer in history; his brothers Eugene and Sidney; the Byer brothers, Nathaniel, Frank, and Jacob; Mose Shapoff; the Lowenstein brothers, Jake (1889-1971) and Mose; Philip Bieber, founder and first president of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association; Kentucky Derby winners Sol Rutchick and Jacob ("Jack") Price; Arnold Winick; Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson (d. 1989), the national training champion in 1963-65; and Yevgeni Gottlieb of the U.S.S.R.

Prominent owners and breeders included Sir Ellice V. Sassoon (1881-1961) who had four Epsom Derby winners; the Joel brothers, Jack (1862-1940) and Solomon ("Solly"; 1866-1931); Nat Cohen (d. 1988), winner of the 1962 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree; Stuart Levy (1908-1966); Heinrich Loebstein; Michael Sobell; Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid; and Evelyn Rothschild, Great Britain; Jean Stern (1874-1962), who won the Grand Steeplechase of Paris four times; Georges Wildenstein (1893-1964) and his son Daniel; Alec Weisweiller; Barons Edouard (1868-1949), James (1878-1957), Maurice (1891-1957) and Guy de Rothschild, France; Sir Adolph Basser (1887-1964), Australia, winner of the Melbourne Cup in 1951; Abe Bloomberg and G. M. Jaffee, South Africa; and the Americans Benjamin Block (1873-1950) and John D. Hertz (1879-1961; Hertz and his wife Frances (1881-1963) won the Triple Crown in the United States in 1943 with Count Fleet; Herbert M. Woolf (1880-1964), J. J. (Jack) Amiel, Harry F. Guggenheim, and Isaac Blumberg were all Kentucky Derby winners; Bernard M. Baruch, William Littauer (1865-1953); Harry M. Warner (1881-1958); Alvin Untermeyer (1882-1963); Louis B. Mayer; Albert Sabbath (1889-1969) whose horse Alsab cost him $700, earned $350,000 from him and sired winners who earned $4,000,000. There were also Nelson I. Asiel (1886-1965); Robert Lehman, Arlene Erlanger (1895-1969); Louis K. Shapiro (1897-1970); Irving Gushen (1899-1963), president of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association in 1953-63; Stanley Sagner (1908-1964); John M. Schiff, Jacob Sher (1889-1972); Louis E. Wolfson; Isador (Colonel) Bieber (1887-1974); Maxwell H. Gluck (1889- ); Jack Dreyfus Jr. (1914- ), chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Racing Association in 1969-70; and David J. Davis, whose Australian thoroughbred, Phar Lap, was considered by many to have been the greatest racehorse of all time.

American racing executives included Louis Smith (1888-1968), Benjamin F. Lindheimer (1890-1960), Leonard Florsheim (1880-1964), Joseph Schenck (1878-1961), Morris Shapiro (1883-1969) and his son John D., the originator of the Washington, D. C., International Classic and president of the Thoroughbred Racing Association; Mervyn Leroy (1900- ); J. J. ("Jake") Isaacson (1896- ); David Haber; Nat Herzfeld; Joseph Cohen; Joseph Gottstein (1891-1971); the Cohen brothers, Herman and Ben, who controlled Maryland's famous racetrack, Pimlico; Dr. Leon Levy (1895- ) and his son Robert; Hyman N. Glickstein, Saul Silberman (1896-1971), Philip H. Iselin, and Samuel J. Perlman (1900- ), a Canadian, who was publisher of the Daily Racing Form and Morning Telegraph.

Harness racing became a major sport in the United States in 1940 when George Morton Levy (1889-1977) introduced night racing at Roosevelt Raceway in New York. Levy also encouraged and backed the invention of the mobile starting gate. He is a member of the Hall of Fame of the Trotter. Even before 1940 track-owner Louis Smith modernized the sport by eliminating the use of heats to determine winners; he built and owned New England's first modern racetrack, Rockingham. Sacher ("Satch") Werner (1898- ), was the outstanding American trainer and driver; before turning professional he was an amateur champion of Vienna, Austria. Amateur drivers included Nathan S. Straus (1848-1931), who gave up racing and yachting to devote himself to philanthropies which helped lay the foundations of the State of Israel; and Neal Shapiro, a member of the United States Equestrian Team in the 1960s.
Horse Racing

American jockey Walter Blum retired after the 1975 season, after a 22-year riding career with 4,383 winners. Maxwell Gluck (1977) and Louis Wolfson (1978) were named the outstanding American thoroughbred owner-breeders of the year. Wolfson's horse Affirmed won the 1978 Triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes) and was named Horse of the Year in 1978 and 1979. Sir Michael Sobel and Sir Arnold Weinstock's Troy won the 200th running of the English Derby and Harry Meyerhoff's Spectacular Bid won the Kentucky Derby.

Jockeys Walter Blum and Jacob Pincus were enshrined in the U.S. Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame in 1987 and 1988. Blum rode 4,382 winners in a 22-year career (1953-1975), and Pincus, a leading 19th-century jockey was also an outstanding trainer. Another Hall of Fame entry in 1990 was owner Sam Rubin's John Henry a two-time American Horse of the Year.

In 1983, with 2,500 victories to his credit, South African jockey Stanley Amos retired, the same year another South African jockey Basil Barcus recorded his 1,000 win.

Sigmund Sommer, leading United States money-winning thoroughbred owner in 1971 and 1972, died in 1979.

Oy vey.

[tector]

If Eddie Maple and Pat Day would convert to Judaism, I think I could become a Nazi with little hesitation.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by tector

If Eddie Maple and Pat Day would convert to Judaism, I think I could become a Nazi with little hesitation.

So, what's that make you now, besides a full blooded wop?

[tector]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

So, what's that make you now, besides a full blooded wop?

Jealousy is unbecoming of you.

Did you celebrate Shavout?