He won over 3,000 career races, but Ron Turcotte will forever be remembered for the three he registered aboard the legendary Secretariat 52 years ago.

Turcotte guided Secretariat to an emphatic American Triple Crown sweep in 1973. So dominant was that performance that Secretariat still holds the records he set that year in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont.

Turcotte's family said through his longtime business partner Leonard Lusky that the jockey died of natural causes at his home in Drummond, N.B., on Friday. He was 84.

Secretariat capped the Triple Crown sweep in dramatic style, registering an emphatic 31-length victory in the Belmont. That performance, dubbed by many as one of the most dominant in sports history, made Secretariat and Turcotte the first American Triple Crown w

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