Joe Notter

Joe Notter
Joe Notter
	Suburban Handicap (1908, 1913); Surf Stakes (1908); Tidal Stakes (1908); Vernal Stakes (1908, 1910); Metropolitan Handicap (1913); Saratoga Handicap (1914); Saratoga Special Stakes (1914); Fall Highweight Handicap (1915, 1916); Municipal Handicap (1915); Delaware Handicap (1916) American Classics wins:; Kentucky Derby (1915); Belmont Stakes (1908) As a trainer:; Juvenile Stakes (1921); Huron Handicap (1929); Belmont Futurity Stakes (1932); Queens County Handicap (1933)
Racing awards
	United States Champion Jockey by earnings (1908)
Honours
	United States' Racing Hall of Fame (1963)
Significant horses
	Ballot, Colin, Fair Play, Maskette, Peter Pan, Regret, Whisk Broom II

Joseph A. Notter (June 21, 1890 - April 10, 1973) was an American

American Classic Races.^[1]

A native of

Hopeful Stakes

.

During his career, Joe Notter rode U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees Maskette and Colin for owner James R. Keene plus Regret and Whisk Broom II for Harry Payne Whitney. 1908 would be Notter's most successful earnings year when he won purses totalling $464,322 which smashed the existing record and remained unmatched for another fifteen years.^[2] Aboard Colin in the 1908 Belmont Stakes, Notter misjudged the finish line and eased the horse up. At the time, he was six lengths in front and still won by a head over the onrushing Fair Play. In the 1957 Kentucky Derby, jockey Bill Shoemaker would make the same mistake with Gallant Man and lose the race.

In 1913 Notter became the first jockey to win the

Brooklyn Handicaps. He rode in the Kentucky Derby three times, winning it in 1915 aboard Regret, the first filly to ever win the Classic, and took second place in 1918 on the Woodburn Stud colt, Escoba. Notter competed in the Preakness Stakes only once, finishing twelfth in the 1910 edition.^[3]

Notter battled weight problems and after 1908 limited himself to dieting enough to be able to ride in selected stakes races. He retired in 1923 having won fifty-six important stakes races then turned to training for a time before working as a racing official.^[4]

Joe Notter was inducted in the United States' Racing Hall of Fame in 1963.

References

^ "Joe Notter". Racingmuseum.org. 1963-01-01. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
^ "Stake-Winning Jockeys of This Year". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1908-12-30. Retrieved 2018-11-02.
^ "Prominent Trainer Who Rode Derby Winners". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1937-05-08. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
^ "Joe Notter Trainer". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1929-04-18. Retrieved 2018-11-20.

[1] "Joe Notter". Racingmuseum.org. 1963-01-01. Retrieved 2018-11-20.

[2] "Stake-Winning Jockeys of This Year". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1908-12-30. Retrieved 2018-11-02.

[3] "Prominent Trainer Who Rode Derby Winners". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1937-05-08. Retrieved 2018-11-20.

[4] "Joe Notter Trainer". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1929-04-18. Retrieved 2018-11-20.

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