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Camilo Marin (January 6, 1913 – December 1, 1988) was a 
For the next several years, Marin represented riding stars 
In 1966, Marin introduced nineteen-year-old Laffit Pincay Jr. to the American Turf. Pincay was elected to the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame less than nine years later, and retired in 2003 as the world's winningest jockey.
Other well known riders that Marin worked for included
The Braulio Baeza Website
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* LAFFIT: Anatomy of a Winner. Cain, Madelyn (2009) Affirmed Press. .
Cuba
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n-born jockey's agent
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who is widely regarded as one of horse racing's most successful agents.
Marin began his career in his native Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
, working as a groom and an exercise rider at the Oriental Park Racetrack
Oriental Park Racetrack in Marianao, Havana, Cuba, was a thoroughbred horse-racing facility operated during the winter by the Havana-American Jockey Club of Cuba. Founded in 1915, Oriental Park was the only race track in Cuba in the days before ...
, in Havana
Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.
. In 1935, he signed on as the agent for Fernando Fernández, and the rider was Cuban champion for the next seven years. In 1943, the pair moved to Mexico City
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to compete at Hipodromo de Las Americas, and Fernández led the nation's riders there for three years straight. When a riding contract for Mexican president Avila Camacho expired, the pair headed to the United States, where Fernandez became a leading rider on the East Coast circuit until 1953. Retiring that same year, Fernandez ranked seventh on the list of world's winningest riders, with over 2,500 career wins.
For the next several years, Marin represented riding stars Don Brumfield
Donald Alan "Don" Brumfield (born May 24, 1938) is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.
During his thirty-five-year career, Brumfield won 4,573 races in 33,222 rides. He retired from racing in 1989. Brumfield was the "track all-time leading r ...
and Manuel Ycaza, both future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees, as well as "Milo" Valenzuela, winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race held on Armed Forces Day which is also the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs () o ...
on Tim Tam
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chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate.
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, for Calumet Farm.
In 1960, Marin discovered Panama
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nian jockey Braulio Baeza
Braulio Baeza (born March 26, 1940) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey and one of the master Thoroughbred jockeys of our time. In 1963, he was the first Latin American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. Baeza began his ra ...
while on vacation, secured a riding contract for him with Alabama sportsman Fred W. Hooper, and represented him for the next four years. During this time together they won the 1963 Kentucky Derby aboard Chateaugay, two Belmonts, two Jeromes and a host of other stakes . Baeza was elected to the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1976.
In 1966, Marin introduced nineteen-year-old Laffit Pincay Jr. to the American Turf. Pincay was elected to the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame less than nine years later, and retired in 2003 as the world's winningest jockey.
Other well known riders that Marin worked for included Jorge Velásquez
Jorge Velásquez (born December 28, 1946 in Chepo, Panama) is a thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.
Jorge Velasquez's career in thoroughbred racing began in his native Panama but as a teenager moved to the United States. In 1967 he won ...
, Bobby Ussery, Ángel Cordero Jr. and Steve Cauthen
Steve Cauthen (born May 1, 1960) is a retired American jockey.
In 1977 he became the first jockey to win over $6 million in a year working with agent Lenny Goodman, and in 1978 he became the youngest jockey to win the U. S. ...
, all U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees, as well as Eddie Belmonte, Álvaro Pineda, Joe Culmone
Joseph Culmone (May 13, 1931 – July 23, 1996) was an American Champion jockey. in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.
Joe Culmone was born in Delia, Sicily, where he lived in a farming area and learned to ride horses. His mother died dur ...
, Ruperto Donoso
Ruperto Donoso (November 10, 1914 - August 16, 2001) was a jockey in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing best known for riding Phalanx to victory in the 1947 Belmont Stakes. He also rode Gilded Knight to a second-place finish in the 1939 Preakne ...
, Glen Brogan and Heliodoro Gustines.
In 1973, Marin told the ''Orange County Register'' "So far I have been fortunate. I have had almost every top rider in America, and I have won just about every major stake (race). I have no complaints."
Marin was inducted into the Oriental Park/Cuban Horse Racing Hall of Fame Exhibit at Calder Race Course in Miami, Florida
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, in October 1986.
He died December 1, 1988 in Arcadia, California, only several hours after the death of his first jockey and lifelong friend, Fernando Fernández.
References
The Braulio Baeza Website
The Greatest Game Website
* LAFFIT: Anatomy of a Winner. Cain, Madelyn (2009) Affirmed Press. .
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