Sue and Jack with jockey Jose Amy on Sense of Reason, one of Sue’s horses, and a groom, photographed at Aqueduct racetrack in Ozone Park, New York, in April 1973.
There isn’t anything John M. “Jack” Bradley likes quite so much as talking about horses. Sure, he’s got a wife and golf to keep him occupied. But it has only been four years since he retired from life on the racetrack, and he’s still a horseman at heart.
He supposes it’s in his blood. Like his father before him, Jack made a career working the backside of a track. His mother loved the races. He practically grew up at the Belmont Race Track in Elmont, Long Island. At age 14, he was illegally riding as a jockey. When he got too big to ride, he exercised horses. Then, for 40 years, he trained them to run.
“I probably ran 15,000 horses in my career,” says Jack, 73, whose name is often sprinkled throughout books on the topic. “I’ve had 46 horses at one time.”
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