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June 8, 2012
life: How is it that a truly magnificent jockey (6,000 wins, people.) can be virtually forgotten after a four decade career? Well, that was the fate of the late, great Johnny Longden.On the eve of the Belmont Stakes and as yet another horse — the wonderful I’ll Have Another — makes a run at the prized and elusive Crown,  LIFE remembers Longden’s life and his mind-boggling career as a rider and, later, as a trainer. See more photos here.

life:

How is it that a truly magnificent jockey (6,000 wins, people.) can be virtually forgotten after a four decade career? Well, that was the fate of the late, great Johnny Longden.

On the eve of the Belmont Stakes and as yet another horse — the wonderful I’ll Have Another — makes a run at the prized and elusive Crown,  LIFE remembers Longden’s life and his mind-boggling career as a rider and, later, as a trainer.

See more photos here.

 
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