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<text id=92TT1078>
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May 18, 1992: Retired:Angel Cordero Jr.
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
May 18, 1992 Roger Keith Coleman:Due to Die
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 26
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<p> RETIRED. Angel Cordero Jr., 49, colorful, hard-riding
Thoroughbred jockey; in New York City. Seriously injured in a
four-horse spill at Aqueduct last January, he will turn to
training horses. In a 31-year career, Cordero won 7,076 races
(third to Bill Shoemaker and Laffit Pincay Jr.), two Eclipse
Awards as best jockey and a record 14 riding titles at Saratoga.
His mounts earned $164,571,847, second on the all-time list.
Elected to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame in 1988,
Cordero won three Kentucky Derbies, on Cannonade (1974), Bold
Forbes (1976) and Spend a Buck (1985), two Preaknesses, on Codex
(1980) and Gate Dancer (1984), and one Belmont Stakes, on Bold
Forbes (1976).
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