John Ruane

John Vincent Ruane was an American jockey in Thoroughbred [horse race|Thoroughbred horse racing].
Ruane began his career in 1957, competing on the New York State racing circuit where he rode for noted National [Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|U.S. Racing Hall of Fame] horse trainers such as John M. Gaver, Sr. and H. Allen Jerkens. He retired after forty-two years having ridden winners of a number of important Graded stakes races.
A native of County Mayo, Ireland, in 1958 John Ruane received recognition for his racing success in America at a ceremony in Belmont Park where Irish government representatives presented him with a piece of Waterford Crystal marked with the official Connaught Crest.
John Ruane was living in Ocean City, New Jersey at the time of his death from pulmonary complications in 2006.