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Manny Ycaza, a trailblazer for Latin American jockeys, dies at 80

Manny Ycaza, a Hall of Fame jockey who won the 1964 Belmont Stakes and paved the way for generations of Latin Americans to ride in North America, has died. He was 80.

Ycaza died Monday of pneumonia and sepsis at a hospital in Forest Hills, N.Y., according to his wife, Jeanne De Ycaza. She said…


Source: Los Angeles Times

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