Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the Canada-born jockey died of natural causes at his home in Drummond, New Brunswick, according to a report ...

Turcotte, renowned rider of the legendary horse Secretariat — winner of the coveted Triple Crown in 1973 — was born in Drummond, near Grand Falls, N.B.

"I was amazed with that horse, all along," Turcotte wrote of Secretariat in 2023. "But then, he was doing something that you'd never seen before, and will probably never see again. He was the type of ...