10 Facts About Raymond Workman

Raymond "Sonny" Workman was an American National Champion and Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

Raymond Workman began riding at age seventeen at racetracks in Ohio where he quickly demonstrated a natural riding ability combined with a strong desire to excel.

Raymond Workman was the regular rider for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's stables and in 1932 and 1933 he and Whitney's handicap runner, Equipoise, were the idols of New York racing.

Raymond Workman made eight starts in the Preakness Stakes, winning it in his first try in 1928 at age eighteen.

Raymond Workman rode in the Belmont Stakes on eight occasions, finishing second five times.

Raymond Workman was runner-up with Whichone in 1930, Osculator in 1932, Nimbus in 1933, Firethorn in 1935, and Belay in 1939.

Not entered in that year's Kentucky Derby, Harry Whitney's colt, Victorian with Sonny Raymond Workman aboard, won the May 11,1928, Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.

In 1937, Sonny Raymond Workman signed to ride for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.

In 1956, Raymond Workman was inducted in the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Raymond Workman died at Georgetown University Hospital in 1966 at age fifty-seven.