Robbie Davis Focus of HRTV Documentary
Airing this Sunday on HRTV's documentary show "Inside Information."
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The half-hour program, which airs at 8:30 p.m. ET, takes a look at Davis' career and focuses extensively on his heartache and anguish following his involvement in an on-track tragedy at Belmont Park in October 1988 that took the life of popular jockey Mike Venezia, a longtime fixture on the New York racing circuit.
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If you haven't read Bill Nack's 1989 account of the Robbie Davis story, you should.
Sports Illustrated: The Longest Ride
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In October, Mike Venezia was killed when he fell from a horse at Belmont Park, but fellow jockey Robbie Davis, whose colt trampled Venezia, was a victim too
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