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Jockey rode Secretariat to 1973 Triple Crown
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Won over 3,000 races in decorated career
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Turcotte became advocate after 1978 fall
Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84.
Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the Canada-born jockey died of natural causes Friday at his home in Drummond, New Brunswick.
