Eddie Arcaro

Jockey, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was winner of the Kentucky Derby on five occasions, and was six times the leading money-winner in the USA. In 1941 and 1948 he won the horse-racing triple crown (the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes).

Eddie Arcaro (February 19, 1916–November 4, 1997) was an American thoroughbred horse-racing jockey.

He was born George Edward Arcaro in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of an impoverished taxi driver. A driving force behind the creation of the Jockeys' Guild, he became the only jockey to win two Triple Crowns in Thoroughbred Racing, in 1941 on Whirlaway and again in 1948 on Citation.

Nicknamed "Banana Nose" by his confreres, Arcaro won the Kentucky Derby three times, the first with Lawrin, and the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes six additional times. He also won the Wood Memorial Stakes nine times, more than double the number of runner-up Angel Cordero, Jr. In 1953 he won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, and in 1958 he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.