RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: JOCKEY MICHAEL BAZE FOUND DEAD IN HIS CADILLAC ESCALADE AT CHURCHILL DOWNS! HE WAS ONLY 24. WHAT A SHOCK TO THE HORSE RACING WORLD!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

JOCKEY MICHAEL BAZE FOUND DEAD IN HIS CADILLAC ESCALADE AT CHURCHILL DOWNS! HE WAS ONLY 24. WHAT A SHOCK TO THE HORSE RACING WORLD!

Image by Rennett Stowe via Flickr

The late Michael Baze...in God's Winner's Circle tonight!

By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
May 10, 2011
11:07 p.m. PST

Louisville, KY

He was one of the best young jockey's in America.

Tonight family and friends and fans of Michael Baze are in deep mourning after he was found dead in his Cadillac Escalade late Tuesday afternoon on the back side of legendary Churchill Downs, near Gate 5.

He was only 24.

Jim Wesley, Jefferson County deputy coroner is reporting that "no foul play" is expected in Baze's death, but the Louisville Metro Police is taking the case as a "death investigation."

I have followed horse racing my entire life, and the Baze family is iconic within this magic world of horse racing. His second cousin Russell Baze is one of my all time favorite jocks.

My brother Rick Economy has been in the Horse Racing industry for the past 28 years, and tonight many in this tight knit community are mourning the passing of a "legend in the making."

Image by Rennett Stowe via FlickrAccording to national horse racing publications, Baze was a native of Renton, Washington and he had already racked up 918 wins and career purse earnings of $32 Million. He was on 6,968 mounts, and his last ride took place on April 29 at Keeneland. For this race season, Baze had 34 wins out of 238 starts and ranked 59th in the country out of 1,209 jockeys for purse earnings with nearly $1.2 million. Baze rode Kentucky Derby runner-up Nehro to a second-place finish in the Louisiana Derby before Corey Nakatani took over for the Arkansas and Kentucky Derby's. He became the youngest rider since Bill Shoemaker in 1950 to win a riding title at Hollywood Park (at age 20) and he also won the best jockey title at Del Mar in 2007.

Others in his family of prominent jockeys include his father, Mike, who rode primarily in the northwest; his first cousin, Tyler Baze, the 2000 Eclipse Award winner as the nation’s top apprentice; and nephew Gary Baze, all-time leading rider at the now defunct Longacres in Washington state.

Share you comments and Memory's of Michael here on my blog...below this post...
RIP! So so sad....

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KY RACING FAN said...: Wonder if it was a "suicide?"; Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:53:00 PM
Anonymous said...: He was a good guy. So sad.; Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:53:00 PM

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

JOCKEY MICHAEL BAZE FOUND DEAD IN HIS CADILLAC ESCALADE AT CHURCHILL DOWNS! HE WAS ONLY 24. WHAT A SHOCK TO THE HORSE RACING WORLD!

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