“Horses are in my blood,” said George Woolf, one of the greatest jockeys ever. “I’ll be with them until I die.” The jockey was right on both counts. His father, a stagecoach driver and ...

Five of the nation’s top riders have been nominated for the 76 th George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award at Santa Anita Park. Since 1950, The Woolf Award honors riders whose careers and personal ...

Alfedo Juarez, Jr., a longtime jockey at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino and across New Mexico's four other racetracks, has been nominated for the 76 th George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.

1946 — George Woolf falls off head first from his mount, Please Me, as he rounds the clubhouse turn in the fourth race at Santa Anita Park. Suffering from a concussion, the 35-year-old jockey ...

George Segal, the US actor who was Oscar-nominated for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, has died at the age of 87. The New Yorker starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Richard ...