Forwarded to the list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maggieb5" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 9:47 AM Subject: Eric Guerin As you were discussing sports worthy Acadians, I thought I would share this with you. I am researching for a book on my hometown, Maringouin, Louisiana. Found a sports card on eBay for Eric Guerin, 1947, Kentucky Derby. He was from Maringouin. Native Dancer: The Grey Ghost by John Eisenberg http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/jockey.asp?ID=188 In the above book, he is mentioned as riding this horse in 1952. Hundreds of fans surrounded the Dancer and shouted encouragement to the familiar trinity of men responsible for the horse: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the handsome millionaire who had bred the Dancer and now campaigned him; Bill Winfrey, the youthful trainer who had yet to make a false move with the horse; and Eric Guerin, the twenty-eight-year-old Cajun jockey who rode all of Vanderbilt's top horses under a contract arrangement. Margaret Martin Broussard