birth_place race birth_date horses article_title name occupation
york , nebraska , united states '' ` as a jockey : '' ' november 28 , 1923 '' , mark-ye-well , swoon 's son , needles , iron ` liege , searching , bally ache '' ` as a as trainer : '' ' hurry to market , r. thomas a jockey : '' ' swaps david erb
 david erb jockey / trainer / owner
david erb

david erb -lrb- born november 28 , 1923 in york , nebraska -rrb- is a retired jockey and trainer in thoroughbred horse racing .
he started riding as a young farm boy and began his professional riding career in 1938 , competing at tracks in his native nebraska .
he got his first win at oaklawn park race track in hot springs , arkansas .
in the june 18 , 1955 californian stakes at hollywood park racetrack , dave erb was the substitute rider for the suspended bill shoemaker aboard swaps .
erb piloted the three-year-old colt to a world record time of 1:40 2/5 for a mile and a sixteenth on dirt .
that same year , dave erb became the regular jockey for future u.s. racing hall of fame inductee , swoon 's son .
ridden by erb in all but one of his twenty-two career stakes race wins , they raced primarily at tracks in chicago and kentucky in 1956 erb won the most important races of his career aboard the future hall of fame colt , needles .
after winning the flamingo stakes and the florida derby , erb and needles narrowly missed winning the american triple crown .
they won the kentucky derby , finished second to fabius in the preakness stakes , then won the belmont stakes .
after retiring as a jockey in 1960 , dave erb trained horses .
in 1963 , he enjoyed great success with the colt hurry to market who was voted american co-champion two-year-old colt .
david erb retired from the industry in 1988 .
he and wife , lenni , with whom he had a son , david , settled on a small farm near greenfield center , new york .
in 2008 , dave erb became the 29th jockey to add his handprint and signature in cement to the '' `` gallup to glory '' '' display at the galt house hotel in louisville , kentucky .
