Edward H. Garrison

Edward H. Garrison
Edward H. Garrison
	Edward Garrison, c. 1895
Occupation	Jockey
Born	February 9, 1868; New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	October 28, 1930 (aged 62); Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Career wins	700+
Major racing wins
	Great Eastern Handicap (1883, 1892); Flight Stakes (1887); Foam Stakes (1887, 1889, 1892); Jerome Handicap (1887, 1888, 1892); Monmouth Oaks (1887); Sapling Stakes (1887); Champion Stakes (1888); Coney Island Derby (1888); Freehold Stakes (1888); Monmouth Handicap (1888); Great American Stakes (1889, 1890, 1892); Suburban Handicap (1889, 1892); Mermaid Stakes (1889); Spring Stakes (1889, 1892, 1894); Tremont Stakes (1889, 1890, 1894); Double Event Stakes (part 1) (1890); Twin City Handicap (1890); Withers Stakes (1890, 1892); Zephyr Stakes (1891); Dolphin Stakes (1892); Lawrence Realization Stakes (1892); Matron Stakes (1892); Toboggan Handicap (1892); American Derby (1893); Double Event Stakes (part 2) (1893, 1896); Great Trial Stakes (1893, 1894); Second Special Stakes (1893); Reapers Stakes (1893); Eclipse Stakes (1894) American Classic Race wins:; Belmont Stakes (1891)
Honours
	United States' Racing Hall of Fame (1955); Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame (1971)
Significant horses
	Tammany, Firenze, Montana

Edward H. "Snapper" Garrison (February 9, 1868 – October 28, 1930) was an American jockey known for hanging back during most of the race and finishing at top speed to achieve a thrilling victory.

Garrison rode out of an East Coast base for sixteen years from 1882 through 1897. While there are no official records documenting all of his career races, he once estimated that he had ridden more than 700 winners during his career. Among his most spectacular wins was the 1892 Suburban Handicap on Montana and in 1893 at New Jersey's Guttenberg track on Tammany, both impressive finishes. Garrison was so well known for this that a contest where the winner pulls ahead at the last moment to score the victory is known as a Garrison finish.

Following the creation of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Edward Garrison was part of the inaugural group inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1955.

References

Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by W. B. M. Ferguson at Project Gutenberg from Project Gutenberg;
Hale, Ron (1997) "A Garrison Finish" About: Horseracing Archived 2006-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
"Word for the Day: November 17, 2006" Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary;
Garrison's Finish at IMDb
Edward Garrison at the United States' National Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame