William Walker (jockey)

William Walker (jockey)

Horseracing personalities infobox
name = Billy Walker


caption =
occupation = Jockey
birthplace = Versailles, Kentucky
birth date = 1860
death date = September 20, 1933
career wins = Not found
race = Match race (1874)
Kentucky Derby (1877)
awards =
honours =
horses = Ten Broeck, Baden-Baden
updated = March 13,, 2007

William "Billy" Walker (1860 - September 20, 1933) was an African American jockey.

Born a slave in near Versailles, Kentucky, Billy Walker was the leading rider at Churchill Downs in the fall racing season of 1875-76 and the spring campaigns of 1876 through 1878. He was the winning rider aboard Ten Broeck in a famous July 4, 1878 match race at Louisville, Kentucky against the great California mare, Mollie McCarty.

For owner Dan Swigert and future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer Edward D. Brown, he rode Baden-Baden to victory in the 1877 Kentucky Derby. Walker made his fourth and final appearance in the 1896 Derby, finishing seventh. He retired that year but stayed in horse racing as a trainer and as an advisor to renowned breeder, John E. Madden.

Billy Walker died in 1933 and was buried at the Louisville Cemetery at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Poplar Level Road. During the 1996 Kentucky Derby Week, Churchill Downs erected a headstone on his previously unmarked grave with an epitaph outlining his career.

References

* [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:g_pQBXRC548J:kentucky.gov/kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx%3Fmode%3DSubject%26subject%3D103+Baden+Baden,+Walker,+Brown&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=6 Kentucky Historical Society]


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