Born: Nov. 8, 1948 in Carrollton, Ohio Resident: Garden City, N.Y. Height: 5'3'' (Riding weight, 113) Family: wife, Kate; sons, Edward Jr. and Iver ... Brother Sam is a jockey and another brother, Mark, is a former jockey ...  He learned to ride under leading Ohio trainer George Stribling

 

Won the Belmont Stakes on Temperence Hill (1980) and Creme Fraiche (1985) ...  Other major wins have included the Arlington Million, Pan American Handicap, and Early Times Manhattan Stakes on Awad, the Kentucky Oaks on White Star Line, the Marlboro Cup on Riva Ridge, the National Jockey Club Handicap with Dusty Screen, and three runnings of the Travers Stakes ... Was the last rider to pilot Secretariat in the horse's final victory, the Canadian International at Woodbine on Oct. 28, 1973.

 

First winner: aboard Swami at Ascot Park in 1966 ... Rode on Ohio and Maryland circuits until 1970, then he tried New Jersey and Florida before moving to New York ... Upset Forego three times-on Arbees Boy in the 1974 Metropolitan, Foolish Pleasure in the 1976 Suburban, and Quiet Little Table in the 1977 Suburban ... He rode in nine Kentucky Derbys, with his best finish being second aboard Laser Light in 1982 ... He has had 14 Breeders' Cup mounts with four fourth-place finishes ... In 1991, moved tack to Italy to ride for A.J.B. Stable, winning the 1991 Italian One Thousand Guineas on Arranva.

 

Won the 1995 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award ... Announced his retirement May 25, 1998, at Belmont while accepting the1998 Mike Venezia Award ... He ended his riding career with 4,398 victories and earnings of $105,318,593. He and his wife ran a retail home and garden store on Long Island until 2005 when they sold the business and took on the position of General Manager at the Rose Hill Plantation Equestrian Boarding And Teaching Center in Bluffton, South Carolina.