Born in Brooklyn, Walter Blum is a retired Hall of Fame jockey. A horse racing fan from boyhood, in his teens Blum began working as a racetrack hot-walker. Despite being blind in his right eye from the age of two, in 1953 he embarked on a career as a jockey, riding his first winner on July 29 at Saratoga Race Course. During the better part of his twenty-two-year career, Blum rode mainly at East Coast tracks from New England to Florida and is one of four jockeys to ever win six races on a single card at Monmouth Park. Blum was inducted in the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 and the following year in the United States Racing Hall of Fame.
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