death_date death_place birth_place awards race birth_date horses article_title name occupation
23 july 1996 cherry hill , new jersey , u.s. delia , sicily , italy united states co-champion jockey by wins -lrb- 1950 -rrb- garden handicap -lrb- 1950 -rrb- ocean city handicap -lrb- 1951 -rrb- state gotham stakes -lrb- 1955 -rrb- miss woodford stakes -lrb- 1958 stakes -rrb- sport page handicap -lrb- 1958 -rrb- monmouth oaks -lrb- -lrb- 1959 -rrb- barbara fritchie handicap -lrb- 1962 -rrb- salvator mile 1950 handicap -lrb- 1957 , 1963 , 1964 -rrb- black-eyed susan , stakes -lrb- 1966 -rrb- bay shore handicap -lrb- 1968 -rrb- 1965 swift stakes -lrb- 1968 -rrb- -rrb- monmouth 13 may 1931 greek ship joe culmone
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joe culmone

joseph `` joe '' culmone -lrb- may 13 , 1931 -- july 23 , 1996 -rrb- 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 during world war ii and in 1946 he emigrated to the united states to join his father in atlantic city , new jersey .
he began working as a stable hand and exercise rider at the atlantic city race course and embarked on his jockey career at florida 's tropical park race track in late 1948 .
a year later he was meeting with great success as an apprentice rider , scoring back-to-back triple wins on racecards at tropical park in december 1949 .
-lsb- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=fb091ef73559157a93c2ab1789d95f4d8485f9] in 1950 culmone tied the great bill shoemaker for the most wins of any jockey in the united states with 388 , a total that equaled a forty-four-year-old world record set by walter miller in 1906 .
-lsb- http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/885171622.html?dids=885171622:885171622&fmt=abs&fmts=abs:ai&type=historic&date=jan+01%2c+1951&author=&pub=hartford+courant&desc=shoemaker's+three+wins+tie+record&pqatl=google] culmone worked as a contract rider for the famous brookmeade stable and also rode for noted owners such as calumet farm and harry z. isaacs .
during his career , he competed primarily at racetracks from new york along the eastern seaboard to florida and at oriental park racetrack in cuba .
he rode five winners on a single racecard several times and on november 27 , 1950 won six races on a single card at bowie race track .
-lsb- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h_opaaaaibaj&sjid=dymeaaaaibaj&pg=3612,6638085&dq=joe+culmone&hl=en] in the u.s. triple crown series , culmone had five rides in the preakness stakes with his best finish a sixth in 1957 and again in 1964 .
retired from racing in 1972 , joe culmone died in 1996 at age sixty-five at his home in cherry hill , new jersey .
