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- <text id=91TT0872>
- <title>
- Apr. 22, 1991: Hospitalized:Bill Shoemaker
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 22, 1991 Nancy Reagan:Is She THAT Bad?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 74
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- <p> HOSPITALIZED. Bill ("The Shoe") Shoemaker, 59, the most
- successful jockey in Thoroughbred-racing history; with paralyzed
- limbs, a broken pelvis and internal injuries suffered when his
- four-wheel-drive vehicle plunged down a 50-ft. embankment in an
- apparently alcohol-related accident; in Inglewood, Calif.
- Shoemaker, who became a trainer after retiring 14 months ago,
- won 8,833 races and purses worth $123.4 million during his
- 41-year career.
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- </body></article>
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