Blum won more than 4,000 races in a 22-year career, but his most famous ride was the 1971 Belmont Stakes, when he rode 34-1 long shot Pass Catcher to an upset victory. (JTA) — Jockey Walter ...

Hall of Fame jockey Walter Blum, whose victory aboard Pass Catcher in the 1971 Belmont Stakes ended the improbable Triple Crown bid of Canonero II, died on March 14 in Hallandale Beach ...

Hall of Fame jockey and former racing steward Walter Blum has died at the age of 89. Blum was one of the winningest riders of all time when he retired from the saddle in 1975. The Racing Officials ...

Walter Blum was one of a kind in many ways ... 1986 and the next year into racing’s Hall of Fame as the only Jewish jockey. Nicknamed “Mousie,” he won the 1964 George Woofe Memorial Jockey ...

Cohen, the first Jewish jockey to have a Derby mount since Hall of Famer Walter Blum rode the 28-1 shot Royal and Regal to an eighth-place finish behind the legendary Secretariat in 1973 ...