James Stout (May 6, 1914 - July 12, 1976) was an American Hall of Fame

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jockey who won four Triple Crown races. Known as "Jimmy," he began working at a racetrack as a stable boy then in 1930 became a professional jockey. Stout became most famous riding for

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and trainer

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. He rode

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in his first race in January 1935 before the colt was sold. In 1936 Stout rode in his first Kentucky Derby. His highly touted colt Granville was a victim of one of the roughest starts in Derby history, and he was thrown from the horse. However, Jimmy Stout and Granville came back to finish second to the Derby winner

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in the

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then won the Belmont Stakes and went on to earn the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year. Jimmy Stout won the Belmont two more times, aboard

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in 1938 and the following year he rode future Hall of Famer Johnstown to victory in both the 1939 Kentucky Derby and the 1939 Belmont Stakes. Among his other major racing successes, he won the

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on two occasions. Jimmy Stout became part of racing history when he rode Bousset to a share of the victory in racing's only triple dead heat in the June 10, 1944

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. In 1946 he returned to his native New Jersey to ride at

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in Oceanport where he was the leading rider for four years. After a twenty-five-year career as a jockey, in which he won 2,056 races, Stout retired from riding in 1954 following which he worked as a race official. In 1968 Jimmy Stout was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Jimmy Stout died on July 12, 1976 of a

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in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where he had been working as a racetrack steward.

External links

James & Aileen Stout burial record and tombstone photo at Find a Grave

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stout, James 1910 births 1976 deaths American jockeys United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees Sportspeople from Lakewood Township, New Jersey