Lenny Goodman

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Lenny Goodman (died September 24, 1996, in Rockville Centre, New York) was a jockey's agent notable for having "served as coach, tutor and surrogate father for the teen-aged jockey Steve Cauthen". [1] [2] [3] He has been described as the "William Morris of jockey agents" [4] and a "nonpareil agent". [5]

Goodman was inducted into The Jockey Agent's Hall of Fame. [6]

Goodman was also the agent for Wesley A. ward, [7] John Rotz, Bobby Ussery, Bill Hartack, Braulio Baeza [1] and Robbie Davis. [8] Baeza referred to him as “"Double-07' because Goodman is an astute handicapper who rarely puts the jockey on the wrong horse. "I owe a lot to him," Braulio said.” [9]

During World War II, he was a welder in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [9]

A resident of Woodmere, New York, Goodman died at the age of 76 after several years of poor health after a stroke in 1993. [1]

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