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podcast player of choice. It's a story that could easily have found itself written into a television sitcom, had

television existed at the time, but it would be equally appropriate for a story in a horror comic.

Yet those had not yet come into existence either.

At New York's Belmont Park, on June 4, 1923,

Frank Hayes secured his place in history as the only jockey to have ever won an

official horse race posthumously.

For those who graduated from public high school, posthumously means he did so while being dead.

Apparently Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack during the race, but he stayed on top of the horse

right through to the finish of the race that is and well through to his own finish too

Hayes as a young stable boy always aspired to be a horse racing jockey. His passion for horses drove him to grab an exciting and career-making opportunity when it came his way to compete in a two mile 12 jump race at Belmont Park.

His chosen companion for this momentous race was Sweet Kiss, a seven-year-old mayor that had previously

not garnered much favor from her owners, or the bookies, boasting

an ego-crushing 20-to-one odds.

Not only was the fix not in, it wasn't even considered remotely close to the entrance.

But Frank Hayes was a dreamer and a go-getter with more energy than a caffeinated squirrel.

Despite the odds stacked against them, he believed in his new partner, Sweet Kiss. Not that it mattered,

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