Robert Tucker (horse trainer)

Robert Tucker
Robert Tucker
Occupation	Trainer
Born	March 24, 1857
Died	March 24, 1910 (aged 53); Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Major racing wins
	Sheepshead Bay Handicap (1896); Latonia Derby (1901); Kentucky Oaks (1904); Waldorf Stakes (1904); Youngster Stakes (1904); Brighton Handicap (1904); Travers Stakes (1904); Undergraduate Stakes (1904); Advance Stakes (1905); Phoenix Stakes (1905); Tennessee Derby (1904, 1905); Brighton Junior Stakes (1905); Montauk Stakes (1905); Withers Stakes (1906); American Classics wins:; Kentucky Derby (1905)
Significant horses
	Accountant, Agile, Broomstick

Robert Tucker (March 24, 1857 - March 24, 1910) was a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses best known for winning the 1905 Kentucky Derby and the Tennessee Derby with the colt Agile for owner Samuel S. Brown.^[1]

Robert Tucker died of heart failure in Louisville, Kentucky on his fifty-third birthday and was buried in Louisville's Saint Louis Cemetery. ^[2]

References

↑ "Kentucky Derby Winners" kentuckyderby.com, accessed July 23, 2016
↑ "NECROLOGY OF THE YEAR 1910" Daily Racing Form, December 31, 1910, accessed July 28, 2016

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