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]
Among his other clients, Robert Tucker trained for Charles Fleischmann, founder of Fleischmann Yeast Company.
Robert Tucker died of heart failure in Louisville, Kentucky on his fifty-third birthday and was buried in Louisville's St. 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