{{Short description|American jockey}} {{Multiple issues| {{Citation style|date=July 2025}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2025}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2025}} }} {{Infobox horseracing personality |name = Eddie Dugan |image= EddieDugan1909-NYT.jpg |caption = Eddie Dugan, 1909 |occupation = [[Jockey]] |birth_place = [[California]], United States |birth_date = c. 1892 |death_date = 1933 |career wins = not found |race = [[Adirondack Stakes]] (1907, 1915)<br />[[Annual Champion Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Atlantic Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Brighton Cup]] (1907)<br />[[Dolphin Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Great Eastern Handicap]] (1907)<br />[[Great Filly Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Manhattan Handicap]] (1907)<br />[[Neptune Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Ocean Handicap]] (1907, 1909)<br />[[Pansy Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Remsen Stakes|Remsen Handicap]] (1907)<br />[[Russet Stakes]] (1907)<br />[[Sacramento Handicap]] (1907)<br />[[Sapphire Stakes (United States)|Sapphire Stakes]] (1907, 1908, 1909)<br />[[Suburban Handicap]] (1909)<br />[[White Plains Handicap]] (1907)<br />[[Belles Stakes]] (1908)<br />[[Dwyer Stakes|Brooklyn Derby]] (1908, 1909)<br />[[Burns Handicap]] (1908, 1909)<br />[[First Special Stakes]] (1908, 1909)<br />[[Flight Stakes (United States)|Flight Stakes]] (1908)<br />[[Gazelle Stakes]] (1908)<br />[[Ladies Handicap]] (1908)<br />[[Lawrence Realization Stakes]] (1908)<br />[[Mermaid Stakes]] (1908)<br />[[Occidental Handicap]] (1908, 1909)<br />[[Paumonok Handicap]] (1908)<br />[[Brooklyn Handicap]] (1909, 1910)<br />[[Champlain Handicap]] (1909)<br />[[Dash Stakes]] (1909)<br />[[Double Event Stakes|Double Event Stakes (part 2)]] (1909)<br />[[Great American Stakes]] (1909, 1910)<br />[[Jerome Handicap]] (1909)<br />[[Mount Vernon Handicap]] (1909)<br />[[Saranac Handicap]] (1909)<br />[[Spring Stakes (Sheepshead Bay)|Spring Stakes]] (1909)<br />[[Broadway Stakes]] (1910)<br />[[Daisy Stakes]] (1910)<br />[[Hudson Stakes]] (1910)<br />[[Laureate Stakes]] (1910)<br />[[Tremont Stakes]] (1910)<br />[[Dominion Handicap (Canada)|Dominion Handicap]] (1911)<br />[[Hamilton Derby]] (1911)<p> '''[[American Classic Races|American Classic Race]] wins:'''<br />[[Preakness Stakes]] (1908, 1911)<br />[[Belmont Stakes]] (1909)</p><p> '''[[Canadian Classic Races|Canadian Classic Race]] wins:'''<br />[[King's Plate]] (1911)<br />[[Breeders' Stakes]] (1911)</p> |awards = [[United States Champion Jockey by wins]] (1909) |honors = |horses = [[Fair Play (horse)|Fair Play]], [[Fitz Herbert]], [[Friar Rock]],<br /> [[Joe Madden (horse)|Joe Madden]], [[King James (horse)|King James]], [[Royal Tourist]],<br /> [[St. Bass]], [[Watervale (horse)|Watervale]] |updated = }} '''Eddie Dugan''' (b. c. 1892 in [[California]] – d. 1933 in [[California]]) was a [[jockey]] in [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing]] who won three [[American Classic Races]] and two [[Canadian Classic Races]]. In addition, Dugan raced and won in the [[Russian Empire]].
== Biography == [[File:Eddie Dugan on "Fair Play" at the Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.jpg|left|thumb|Eddie Dugan on [[Fair Play (horse)|Fair Play]] at [[Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino|Empire City Racetrack]], 1907]] In 1907, Eddie Dugan was an [[Glossary of North American horse racing#apprentice|apprentice jockey]]. He rode in Chicago and at racetracks in the [[Northeastern United States]] where a New York City newspaper called him "the cleverest apprentice in the east." Dugan's wins that year included the [[Manhattan Handicap]] and the first of two [[Suburban Handicap]]s. In 1908, a year when the [[Hart–Agnew Law]] banned [[gambling]] in New York, the number of Thoroughbred races was limited and the industry, without revenue from betting, was on the verge of collapse.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1900s/drf1908011801/drf1908011801_1_7 |title=Penalties in the New York Bills |work=Daily Racing Form|via=University of Kentucky Archives|date=1908-01-18|accessdate=2018-10-26}}</ref> Hired by major stable owners [[Harry Payne Whitney|Harry Whitney]] and [[Richard Thornton Wilson Jr.|Richard T. Wilson Jr.]], Eddie Dugan won the first of his three American Classic Races, riding [[Royal Tourist]] to victory in the [[Preakness Stakes]]. In the pre [[United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing|U.S. Triple Crown]] era, Dugan never rode in the [[Kentucky Derby]].
A very aggressive rider, on September 23, 1908 ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that two jockeys had been seriously hurt in a race at [[Gravesend Race Track]] on [[Coney Island]] due to rough riding by Eddie Dugan for which he was fined and suspended. The ''Times'' wrote that Dugan's action was so egregious that other riders in the jockeys' room threatened to attack him.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/09/23/archives/two-jockeys-hurt-by-spill-in-race-rough-riding-by-eddie-dugan-sends.html|title = TWO JOCKEYS HURT BY SPILL IN RACE; Rough Riding by Eddie Dugan Sends Yorke and Smith Down with Mounts. SMITH IS LIKELY TO DIE Judges Fine and Suspend Dugan and Other Riders Threaten to Attack Him|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 23 September 1908}}</ref> Banned from competing, after his suspension expired Eddie Dugan returned to riding in January 1909 at [[Santa Anita Park]] in [[California]].
With racing in the United States still limited from the effects of the [[Hart–Agnew Law]] that banned betting on horse races, in April 1909 Eddie Dugan went to England to ride for Harry Whitney but was not granted a jockey license after [[The Jockey Club|American Jockey Club]] records showed he had been suspended six times for rough riding <ref>{{cite news|title=One race for Vanderbilt|location=Paris |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/04/05/101875904.pdf|date=April 5, 1909|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/03/28/archives/english-turf-bars-jockey-eddie-dugan-investigation-of-his-rough.html|title=ENGLISH TURF BARS JOCKEY EDDIE DUGAN; Investigation of His "Rough Riding" Record Results in License Being Withheld. MAY RETURN TO AMERICA Is Under Contract to Harry Payne Whitney and Is Likely to Find Employment in Whitney American Stable.|date=28 March 1909|accessdate=27 January 2024|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> Returning to the United States, Dugan had an outstanding year, winning his second Suburban Handicap, plus the [[Brooklyn Handicap|Brooklyn]], [[Jerome Handicap|Jerome]] and [[Saranac Handicap]]s. He also won his second American Classic, riding [[Sam Hildreth]]'s colt, [[Joe Madden (horse)|Joe Madden]], to an eight-length win in the [[Belmont Stakes]] en route to becoming the [[United States Champion Jockey by wins]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/12/26/106780327.pdf|newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 26, 1909|title=Notable achievements in the world of sports in 1909}}</ref>
In another very limited year of racing, in 1910 Eddie Dugan's wins included his second Brooklyn Handicap as well as the [[Tremont Stakes]] at Gravesend Race Track. On April 14, 1911, at the Jamestown track at [[Norfolk, Virginia]], Dugan was again blamed for another serious racing accident that sent two jockeys to hospital.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/04/15/archives/jockeys-hurt-in-a-spill-adams-bell-and-connolly-victims-eddie-dugan.html|title = JOCKEYS HURT IN a SPILL.; Adams, Bell, and Connolly Victims -- Eddie Dugan Blamed for Mishap|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 15 April 1911}}</ref> On May 17, 1911, he won his second Preakness Stakes aboard [[Watervale (horse)|Watervale]], then traveled to [[Toronto]], Canada where three days after his American classic win, he captured the May 20th Canadian Classic, the [[King's Plate]] on the colt [[St. Bass]], owned by Harry Giddings and trained by [[Harry Giddings, Jr.]] Three days after that, Dugan and St. Bass won a second Canadian Classic, the [[Breeders' Stakes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1920s/drf1922121301/drf1922121301_2_4 |title=Re-Entry of Jockey E. Dugan His Fame and Feats of Riding |work=Daily Racing Form|via=University of Kentucky Archives|date=1922-12-13 |accessdate=2020-03-11}}</ref>
With racing still restricted in the United States and many New York tracks closed, in 1913 and 1914 Eddie Dugan and his brother Willie traveled to Russian Empire where they competed successfully. They were forced to return to the United States in the fall of 1914 when World War I broke out.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gIULAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6FMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5967,2564874&dq=eddie+dugan|title=The Evening Independent - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|accessdate=27 January 2024}}</ref>
His career in decline and battling weight gain, by August 1915 Eddie Dugan was accepting rides on outside mounts and declaring he could make a 109-pound weight.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/08/04/archives/seneca-selling-stakes-for-hanson-saratoga-races-run-over-slow-track.html|title = SENECA SELLING STAKES FOR HANSON; Saratoga Races Run over Slow Track -- Day for Cheap Horses at Spa|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 4 August 1915}}</ref> Out of racing for a few years, he attempted a short-lived comeback at [[Agua Caliente Racetrack]] in [[Tijuana]], [[Mexico]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121021155231/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/328842322.html?dids=328842322:328842322&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Dec+29,+1922&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Eddie+Dugan+in+Comeback+at+Tijuana&pqatl=google December 29, 1922 ''Los Angeles Times'' article titled ''Eddie Dugan in Comeback at Tijuana'']</ref>
== References == https://www.newspapers.com/image/380313045/?article=712ef3d1-4fb5-4b5e-9d11-a5f4af5ffa20&terms=%22dugan%22%20AND%20%22edward%22==References== {{reflist}} * [[Louis E. Cauz|Cauz, Louis E.]] ''The Plate, A Royal Tradition''. (1984) [[Deneau Publishers]] {{ISBN|0-88879-104-6}} *[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/06/01/archives/fitz-herbert-wins-6000-brooklyn-turf-champion-never-headed-for-the.html June 1, 1910 ''The New York Times'' article on Eddie Dugan winning the Brooklyn Handicap] *[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gIULAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6FMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5967,2564874&dq=eddie+dugan December 12, 1913 St. Petersburg, Florida ''Evening Independent'' newspaper article on the Dugan brothers riding in Russia] *[https://www.nytimes.com/1914/12/20/archives/jockeys-quit-russia-willie-dugan-arrested-as-spy-brother-to-ride.html December 20, 1914 ''The New York Times'' article on Eddie Dugan riding in Russia]
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