James Stout

{{Infobox horseracing personality |name = James Stout |image= Jimmy aileen.gif |caption = Jimmy Stout and wife, Aileen "Billie" Stout, c. 1939 |occupation = [[Jockey]] |birth_place = [[Lakewood Township, New Jersey|Lakewood, New Jersey]], [[United States]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1914|05|06}} |death_date = {{dda|1976|07|12|1914|05|06}} |death_place = [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], United States |resting_place = Junior Mechanics Cemetery [[Tabernacle, New Jersey]] |career wins = 2,056 |race = [[Champlain Handicap]] (1936) [[Jockey Club Gold Cup]] (1936, 1940) [[Travers Stakes]] (1936, 1940) [[Lawrence Realization Stakes]] (1936, 1940) [[Saratoga Cup]] (1936, 1939, 1940) [[Juvenile Stakes (United States)|Juvenile Stakes]] (1937) [[Tremont Stakes]] (1937) [[Spinaway Stakes]] (1937) [[Gazelle Handicap]] (1937, 1938, 1942) [[Lane's End Breeders' Futurity]] (1938) [[Remsen Stakes]] (1938) [[Stuyvesant Handicap]] (1938) [[Wood Memorial Stakes]] (1938, 1939) [[Carter Handicap]] (1939, 1944, 1945, 1954) [[Fleetwing Handicap]] (1939, 1943, 1944) [[Jamaica Handicap]] (1939, 1946) [[Withers Stakes]] (1939) [[Cowdin Stakes]] (1940) [[Brooklyn Handicap]] (1940, 1941) [[Butler Handicap]] (1941) [[Whitney Handicap]] (1941) [[Yonkers Handicap]] (1941, 1942, 1943) [[Beldame Stakes]] (1942) [[Wilson Stakes]] (1942) [[Edgemere Handicap]] (1943) [[Bay Shore Handicap]] (1945) [[Toboggan Handicap]] (1945) [[Frizette Stakes]] (1945) [[Narragansett Special]] (1952) [[Sport Page Handicap]] (1953) [[Oceanport Stakes|Oceanport Handicap]] (1953) '''[[American Classic Races|American Classic Race]] wins:''' [[Kentucky Derby]] (1939) [[Belmont Stakes]] (1936, 1938, 1939) |awards = |honors = [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|United States' Racing Hall of Fame]] (1968) |horses = [[Seabiscuit]], [[Granville (horse)|Granville]], [[Johnstown (horse)|Johnstown]], [[Fenelon (horse)|Fenelon]] [[Assault (horse)|Assault]], [[Fighting Fox]], [[Stymie (horse)|Stymie]], [[Omaha (horse)|Omaha]] }} {{for multi|the Wisconsin politician and businessman|James Huff Stout|the squash, rackets and real tennis player|James Stout (rackets)}}

'''James Stout''' (May 6, 1914 - July 12, 1976) was an American [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] [[thoroughbred horse racing]] [[jockey]] who won four [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States)|Triple Crown races]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/james-stout |title=James Stout |publisher=Racingmuseum.org |date=2019-12-20 |access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/06/11/archives/triple-dead-heat-in-11700-carter-run-at-aqueduct-favored-bossuet.html |title=Jimmy Stout, Jockey, Dies at 62 |publisher=[[New York Times]], page 33 |date=1976-07-14 |access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref>

Known as "Jimmy," he began working at a racetrack as a stable boy then in 1930 became a professional jockey. Stout became most famous riding for [[Belair Stud]] and [[horse trainer|trainer]] [[Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons]]. He rode [[Seabiscuit]] in his first race in January 1935 before the [[Colt (horse)|colt]] was sold. In 1936 Stout rode in his first [[1936 Kentucky Derby|Kentucky Derby]]. His highly touted colt [[Granville (horse)|Granville]] was a victim of one of the roughest starts in Derby history, and he was thrown from the horse. However, Jimmy Stout and Granville came back to finish second to the Derby winner [[Bold Venture (horse)|Bold Venture]] in the [[Preakness Stakes]] then won the [[Belmont Stakes]] and went on to earn the [[Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year]]. Jimmy Stout won the Belmont two more times, aboard [[Pasteurized (horse)|Pasteurized]] in 1938 and the following year he rode future Hall of Famer [[Johnstown (horse)|Johnstown]] to victory in both the [[1939 Kentucky Derby]] and the [[1939 Belmont Stakes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/05/07/archives/kentucky-derby-chart.html |title=Kentucky Derby Chart |publisher=New York Times, Section Sports, page 1 |date=1939-05-07 |access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.belmontstakes.com/uploads/historical_races/history_pdf_1939.pdf |title=71st Running-1939-Johnstown |work=Belmontstakes.com |date=1939-06-03 |access-date=2019-12-18}}</ref> Among his other major racing successes, he won the [[Jockey Club Gold Cup]] on two occasions.

Jimmy Stout became part of racing history when he rode Bousset to a share of the victory in racing's only triple dead heat in the June 10, 1944 [[Carter Handicap]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/06/11/archives/triple-dead-heat-in-11700-carter-run-at-aqueduct-favored-bossuet.html |title=Triple Dead Heat in $11,700 Carter Run at Aqueduct |publisher=New York Times, Section Financial, page 1 |date=1944-06-11 |access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref> In 1946 he returned to his native New Jersey to ride at [[Monmouth Park Racetrack]] in [[Oceanport, New Jersey|Oceanport]] where he was the leading rider for four years. After a twenty-five-year career as a jockey, in which he won 2,056 races, Stout retired from riding in 1954 following which he worked as a race official.

In 1968 Jimmy Stout was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Jimmy Stout died on July 12, 1976, of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], where he had been working as a [[Glossary of North American horse racing#steward or track steward|racetrack steward]].

==External links== * [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70852253/james-stout James & Aileen Stout burial record and tombstone photo at Find a Grave]

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