Frank Hayes was the first and only jockey to ever win a horse race dead,and by doing that also won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Technically he wasn't really a jockey he was a stable hand/trainer which may have been the cause of his death as he had dropped weight rapidly in order to make the weight requirement for the race. He had begged the owner to let him ride Sweet Kiss at Belmont Park that June in 1923 and she had finally agreed. He was buried three days later in his racing silks but Sweet Kiss ended up nicknamed Sweet Kiss of Death and never raced again.
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