Peter D. Anderson (November 20, 1931, in
Southampton
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,
Long Island,
New York – February 19, 2013, in
Hialeah
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,
Florida
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) was an American
jockey and
Thoroughbred
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racehorse trainer. He began his riding career in the latter part of the late 1940s and was the leading apprentice jockey in
New York in 1948. Like many of his compatriots, Anderson struggled throughout his career to maintain his weight.
Anderson won a number of major
Graded stakes race
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s including a victory in the 1966
Washington Park Handicap
The Washington Park Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the first week of September at Arlington Park Racetrack in Arlington Heights, Illinois. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contest ...
aboard
Bold Bidder
Bold Bidder (1962–1982) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background
Bred by the Wheatley Stable partnership of Gladys Mills Phipps and her brother, Ogden L. Mills, Bold Bidder was sired by their great stallion Bold Ruler, an eight-time ...
in which he defeated the future
Hall of Fame inductee,
Tom Rolfe
Tom Rolfe (April 14, 1962 – June 12, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was the leading colt of his generation in the United States, winning the Preakness Stakes and being voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Ho ...
. In the 1973 Kentucky Derby, he rode the great
Forego
Forego (April 30, 1970 – August 27, 1997) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that won eight Eclipse Awards including Horse of the Year, Champion Handicap Horse and Champion Sprinter.
Background
Foaled at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentuc ...
to a fourth-place finish behind eventual
Triple Crown
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Sports Horse racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)
** Triple Crown Trophy
** Triple Crown Productions
* Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing
* Tri ...
champion,
Secretariat
Secretariat may refer to:
* Secretariat (administrative office)
* Secretariat (horse)
Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989), also known as Big Red, was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse who is the ninth winner of the Ame ...
. In all, he rode Forego in ten starts, earning three wins and a second in the
Florida Derby
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. In his only appearance in the
Preakness Stakes
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, Anderson rode Primate to a fourth-place finish in the 1952 race. However, Anderson's most important career win came in 1958 when he rode
Cavan to an upset win over
Tim Tam
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chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate.
H ...
that denied the
Calumet Farm colt the Triple Crown.
Following his retirement from riding in the mid-1970s, Anderson remained in the racing business as a trainer. Based at
Calder Race Course in
Miami Gardens, Florida
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, in 2007 he was notably the trainer of
Delightful Kiss for
Hobeau Farm. In June, the
gelding won the
Ohio Derby
The Ohio Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in mid-to-late June at Thistledown in North Randall, Ohio.
The Grade III stakes for three-year-olds is run on dirt over a distance of 1 miles.
The race currently offers a purs ...
, a race that in 1964 Anderson also won as a jockey aboard National.
Anderson's daughter,
Aggie Ordonez, is also a Thoroughbred trainer, competing at tracks such as
Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the closing of the ...
and
Bay Meadows Racetrack
Bay Meadows was a horse racing track in San Mateo, California from 1934 until 2008, in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.
History
Built on the site of an old airfield, Bay Meadows Racecourse was the longest continually operating t ...
in
Northern California.
References
External links
*
April 19, 2007 article on Pete Anderson by Jennie Rees in the Louisville Courier-Journal
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1931 births
People from Southampton (town), New York
American jockeys
American horse trainers
2013 deaths