The Jockey

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

(Is Fairmount in Missouri or Illonois?)

Illinois

[DaTruth]

Franklin beat out Ronald Ardoin for the riding title at the 1982-1983 Fair Grounds meet. I don't recall if he rode the next year at Fair Grounds, which was where Delp wintered at the time. He might have been injured or on the outs with Delp, because he wasn't riding Delp's big 3yo Silent King in the spring of 1984. The next year, he won some stakes at FG for Delp, and won the Fair Grounds Oaks aboard Marshua's Echelon for Louisiana connections. He pretty much dropped out of the limelight at Fair Grounds after that.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

Franklin beat out Ronald Ardoin for the riding title at the 1982-1983 Fair Grounds meet. I don't recall if he rode the next year at Fair Grounds, which was where Delp wintered at the time. He might have been injured or on the outs with Delp, because he wasn't riding Delp's big 3yo Silent King in the spring of 1984. The next year, he won some stakes at FG for Delp, and won the Fair Grounds Oaks aboard Marshua's Echelon for Louisiana connections. He pretty much dropped out of the limelight at Fair Grounds after that.

If Justin Beiber would play a young Ron Franklin - that movie would be a hit.

They are ringers for one another.