At Santa Anita, jockey Johnny Longden, who has ridden more winners than any other American rider, was honored by the California Turf Writers Assn. when he was presented with a miniature statue, the annual George Woolf Memorial Award. In this photo, Johnny stands at the microphone with his children, Andrea and Eric, and his wife, Hazel on his left. Mrs. Genevieve Woolf-Cayer, widow of the late, great race rider, George Woolf, is on Johnny's right. Other riders now competing at Santa Anita are in the background with the statue of Woolf in the center. Photo dated: February 12, 1952.
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