Fred's Fun Fact: Deathly Horse Race

What happened to the racer during a match?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fred Show is on Fred's fun fact fredwaun.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So much so this is random, but this is a
dude named Frank Hayes. Frank Hayes, old boy. The guy
wasn't even really a jockey, like a horse jockey. He
was a stable hand who sometimes filled in during races.
On June third of nineteen twenty three, he won his
first and last horse race. At some point while riding

(00:33):
the twenty to one long shot Sweet Kiss. I'm sure
you bet on that Kaitlin Hayes suffered a heart attack
and died, but the horse finished first and his body
was still on his saddle, and he was declared the winner.
He was only twenty two. He'd been required to drop
ten pounds of water weight in the previous twenty four
hours as possible. The dehydration and weakness proved to be

(00:53):
a lethal combination. But the guy, I believe he's the
only jockey in history that won a race while not
being alive. I would venture to say he is. Yeah,
I mean, crazy things have happened, but yes, so his
name was Frank Hayes. This was in nineteen twenty three
and Canlon won the bet. Yeah, a bet is a
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