‘One Of A Kind’: Former Jockey ‘Cowboy’ Jones Dies At Age 79

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A local celebrity every time he ventured out to Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky., retired jockey Robert A. “Cowboy” Jones has succumbed to an esophageal tumor at the age of 79. Jones rode his first winner in 1959, and was a perennial leading rider at both Ellis Park and the now-defunct Miles Park (located in […]

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