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march 25 , 2007 december , 1984 vancouver , b.c. , canada vanity 1944 1955 -rrb- laurel futurity -lrb- 1955 , 1959 -rrb- pimlico -rrb- special -lrb- 1955 -rrb- remsen stakes -lrb- 1955 -rrb- toboggan yankee handicap -lrb- 1955 -rrb- vosburgh stakes -lrb- 1955 -rrb- whitney handicap handicap -lrb- 1955 -rrb- coaching club american oaks -lrb- 1956 -lrb- -rrb- monmouth oaks -lrb- 1956 -rrb- withers stakes -lrb- 1956 1945 , 1960 , 1961 -rrb- acorn stakes -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , oceanport handicap -lrb- 1960 -rrb- dwyer stakes -lrb- 1961 -rrb- 1951 firenze handicap -lrb- 1961 -rrb- sorority stakes -lrb- 1961 -rrb- -rrb- united nations handicap -lrb- 1967 -rrb- comely handicap stakes -lrb- 1946 , 1961 -rrb- metropolitan handicap -lrb- 1949 -lrb- , 1950 -rrb- champagne stakes -lrb- 1950 , 1953 -rrb- 1944 matron stakes -lrb- 1950 , 1951 -rrb- spinaway stakes -lrb- -rrb- 1950 -rrb- tremont stakes -lrb- 1951 , 1955 -rrb- jamaica hollywood handicap -lrb- 1952 -rrb- cowdin stakes -lrb- 1953 , 1956 gold -rrb- gotham stakes -lrb- 1954 , 1957 -rrb- lawrence realization cup stakes -lrb- 1954 -rrb- travers stakes -lrb- 1954 , 1956 -lrb- -rrb- fall highweight handicap -lrb- 1955 -rrb- futurity stakes -lrb- january 23 , 1920 happy issue , faultless , fisherman , sailor british canadian horse racing hall of fame -lrb- 1980 -rrb- columbia sports hall of fame -lrb- 1979 -rrb- hedley woodhouse
 hedley woodhouse jockey
hedley woodhouse

hedley john woodhouse -lrb- january 23 , 1920 - december , 1984 -rrb- was a canadian jockey who won the new york state riding championship in 1953 .
born in vancouver , british columbia , he began his racing career there in 1937 at the lansdowne park racetrack as an apprentice with a.c.t. stock farm owned by industrialist austin c. taylor .
woodhouse 's ability would soon see him racing at tracks along the west coast of the united states and in 1944 he rode happy issue to victory in the grade i vanity handicap and hollywood gold cup at hollywood park racetrack in inglewood , california .
in 1949 , woodhouse rode the colt fisherman to a 3rd place finish in the kentucky derby , the best result of his four tries between then and 1957 .
he rode in the preakness stakes on three occasions , his best finish a 5th in 1951 .
racing out of new york tracks in the first part of the 1950s , hedley woodhouse won the 1953 new york riding championship with 138 victories , and was runner-up on three occasions .
after finishing 7th in the 1954 kentucky derby on `` fisherman '' , a colt owned by cornelius vanderbilt whitney and trained by sylvester veitch , woodhouse came within a neck of winning the belmont stakes .
his 2nd place finish was his best in the third of the american triple crown races .
from being based in new york , hedley woodhouse would make his way to the florida racing circuit where remarkably at age 50 he won the 1970 jockey title at tropical park in miami .
he retired the following year having won 2,642 races .
he was inducted into the british columbia sports hall of fame in 1979 and the canadian horse racing hall of fame in 1980 married to elsie woodhouse -lrb- 1919 -- 1998 -rrb- , their son robert was also a successful jockey , capturing a number of important stakes races on the new york circuit .
hedley and robert woodhouse are the only father and son to win the whitney handicap .
hedley woodhouse died in 1984 .
