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Douglas Dodson was born on 21 December, 1921 in Pickardville, Alberta, Canada, is an A canadian emigrant to the United States. Discover Douglas Dodson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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Occupation Jockey / Trainer
Age 61 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 21 December, 1921
Birthday 21 December
Birthplace Pickardville, Alberta, Canada
Date of death 1982
Died Place Miami, Florida, United States
Nationality Canada

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Douglas Dodson Net Worth

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1939

There he was hired by trainer Walter Neilsen and, while still an apprentice jockey in 1939, won the Pacific Northwest's most prestigious race, the Longacres Mile.

At age seventeen, he was the youngest jockey to ever win the Longacres Mile.

1940

In 1940, the then nineteen-year-old Dodson was signed by Warren Wright, Sr. to join Eddie Arcaro as a rider for his Calumet Farm stable of Lexington, Kentucky.

In September of the previous year, Wright had hired Ben Jones as head trainer.

The result saw Calumet Farm record the most successful decade of any racing stable in the history of American Thoroughbred racing.

1945

Between 1945 and 1961, Douglas Dodson made twelve appearances in the Kentucky Derby without winning.

His best result came with his first ride in 1945 aboard Pot O'Luck when he ran second.

Later that year he rode Pot O' Luck to victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.

Dodson finished third in the Derby on three other occasions.

He had much better luck in the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes.

Among Douglas Dodson's other accomplishments in racing, he was the Leading jockey at Arlington Park in 1945 and 1946.

1946

After finishing second by a neck in 1946 aboard Maine Chance Farm's Lord Boswell, he won the race in 1947 aboard Faultless defeating, among others Phalanx, later to be voted outstanding three-year-old male horse that year.

The following year he earned another second-place result with Vulcan's Forge.

Dodson had his greatest success in 1946 and 1947 with the Calumet colt, Armed.

1947

Voted the U.S. Champion Older Male Horse both years, on September 27, 1947, Armed and Dodson defeated U.S. Triple Crown champion Assault in a $100,000 winner take all match race at Belmont Park.

For Dodson, he won a National riding title in 1947 when he led all American jockeys in total purses won.

1948

His association with Calumet came to a bitter end in 1948 when Dodson quit the racing stable after being denied a mount on Citation, soon to win the Triple Crown, in favor of the colt's regular rider, fellow Canadian Albert Snider.

1949

In 1949, he made a return visit to his native Canada to ride the future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame colt Arise to a win in the Canadian Championship Stakes.

1951

In 1951 Dodson became the first jockey to win three editions of the then richest race in Florida, the Widener Handicap at Hialeah Park.

1956

Dodson made his fourth and last Preakness start in 1956, earning third place aboard No Regrets.

1960

Dodson retired from riding at the beginning of the 1960s but remained in the horse racing industry as a trainer.

1963

That year, Armed received the highest honor in horse racing when he was voted Horse of the Year and in 1963 would be inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

1965

In 1965 he was the top trainer at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida.

1982

Douglas Allan Dodson (December 21, 1921 - February, 1982) was a Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

Douglas Dodson was born in Pickardville, Alberta, Canada, the son of James Floyd and Emma Dodson.

His family moved to a ranch in Elk River, Idaho when he was still a child and as a small boy he learned to ride horses and rope steers.

His parents moved to Burns, Oregon where at age fifteen he was working as a shoeshine boy when trainer Harry Walters told the diminutive boy shining his shoes about racing Thoroughbreds.

Deciding that he wanted to try his luck as a jockey, Dodson soon traveled to the Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington.

Douglas Dodson was living in Hollywood, Florida at the time of his death in 1982.