Ronnie Franklin, the hard-living Dundalk-raised jockey who rode Spectacular Bid to victories in the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, died Thursday of lung cancer. He was 58. Franklin’s nephew and ...
Ronnie Franklin, the Maryland jockey who won the 1979 Kentucky Derby riding Spectacular Bid, died Thursday at age 58. Franklin's nephew Walter Cullum confirmed his death to The Baltimore Sun, ...