Corey A. Black is a retired Champion jockey

Jockey

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 in American Thoroughbred horse racing

Thoroughbred horse race

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Born in Westminster, California

Westminster, California

-Government:In the state legislature Westminster is located in the 34th, Senate District, represented by Democrat Lou Correa and Republican Tom Harman respectively, and in the 67th and 68th Assembly District, represented by Republicans Jim Silva and Van Tran respectively...

, Black won his first race as a professional apprentice jockey on October 16, 1985, during the Oak Tree Racing Association

Oak Tree Racing Association

The Oak Tree Racing Association is an American not-for-profit corporation that exists to conduct live thoroughbred horse racing in Southern California.-History:...

 meet at Santa Anita Park

Santa Anita Park

Santa Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race...

. A Champion that year, he led all apprentice jockeys in United States racing in purse money won. During a fifteen-year career, Black rode primarily in California where he won important races, including the 1993 Hollywood Gold Cup

Hollywood Gold Cup

The Hollywood Gold Cup is an American Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. It was run as a handicap race until 1997 when it was switched to weight-for-age conditions...

 aboard Best Pal

Best Pal

Best Pal was an American Hall of Fame champion racehorse, who to this day holds the record for purses of any California-bred racehorse, earning his owners, the Golden Eagle Farm, US$5.6 million over his lifetime.A descendant of Princequillo on both his sire's and dam's line, Best Pal won the first...

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In the summer of 1987, and again in 1992, Corey Black rode in France

France

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 where he won a number of conditions races

Conditions races

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Like many in his profession, Corey Black battled weight gain that eventually was a factor in his retirement at age thirty-one on November 26, 2000. Following retirement he worked as an agent

Sports agent

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 for a short time, acting for jockeys Gary Stevens and Brice Blanc

Brice Blanc

Brice Blanc is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.Blanc attended a jockey's apprentice school in his native France then, encouraged by trainer Ben Cecil, in October 1993 emigrated to the United States where he settled in Southern California and began racing at area tracks...

. In 2002, he was hired to work on the set of the motion picture, Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit (film)

Seabiscuit is a 2003 American biographical film based on the best-selling non-fiction book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand...

. He served as a stunt double

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 for actor Tobey Maguire

Tobey Maguire

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, who he taught the posturing of a professional jockey, and played the role of the jockey (Harry Richards

Harry C. Richards

Harry Clayton Richards was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and the first president of the Jockeys' Guild. Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro said Richards: "was strong in character and who maintained a steady belief in our organization [Jockeys' Guild]...

) on Rosemont

Rosemont (horse)

Rosemont was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for his win in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap, defeating Seabiscuit, a scene used in the 2003 motion picture Seabiscuit....

, William duPont, Jr.'s

William duPont, Jr.

William duPont, Jr. was an American businessman and banker and a prominent figure in the sport of thoroughbred horse racing. A member of the Delaware Du Pont family, he was the son of William du Pont and Annie Rogers , and brother to horsewoman, Marion.In 1919, he married Jean Liseter Austin...

 horse that beat Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States. From an inauspicious start, Seabiscuit became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression...

 in the 1937 Santa Anita Handicap

Santa Anita Handicap

The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in early March at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Grade I race for horses four years old and up , and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during the winter racing season...

. Black has worked as an exercise rider and has been an analyst on the TVG Network

TVG Network

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 horse racing broadcasts. http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/18746/tvgs-corey-black-elated-in-his-many-roles

Corey Black is a member of Board of Don MacBeth Memorial Jockey Fund, an organization that raises money to assist injured and disabled riders. http://www.macbethfund.org/board.htm