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Robyn Smith (born August 14, 1944) is an American retired jockey. Active from 1969 to 1980, Smith accumulated 247 wins in California and New York race tracks, and became the first female jockey to win a stakes race in 1973. Early life. Smith is largely evasive about the details of her early life.
Jun 9, 1988 · In 1980, Fred Astaire, who had been a widower since 1954 and who had just turned 81, married Robyn Smith, who was 35 and one of the first and most successful woman jockeys in the country.
Smith, Robyn (1942—)American jockey who was the first woman to win a stakes race. Name variations: Melody Dawn Miller; Caroline Smith; Robyn Caroline Smith; Robyn Astaire. Born Melody Dawn Miller in San Francisco, California, on August 14, 1942; daughter of Constance Miller; married Fred Astaire (the actor and dancer), in 1980 (died 1987).
Apr 17, 2000 · On Jan. 1, 1973, at Santa Anita, Smith was preparing for her. first mount of the year when a friend introduced her to Fred. Astaire, 46 years her senior. Astaire asked whether he should. put money on her horse, Exciting Devorcee, and Smith assured him. it was a bad idea. He paid no heed, and when the horse beat.
Aug 17, 1997 · Robyn Smith eventually made her MGM connection, but not according to the usual star-is-born script. By the late ‘70s, she was Fred Astaire’s final dance partner, the one he whirled around the ...
Robyn Smith. Soundtrack: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Robyn Smith was born Constance Ann Miller. Her biological father deserted her and her mother at her birth. Her mother was 17 when she was born. Her mother was declared mentally unstable and Melody was placed in a foster home. She was adopted by a family surnamed Smith. After a grueling court battle, she was returned to her birth mother ...
Jun 23, 1988 · Robyn Astaire has hired a lawyer to try to police such ventures, and she is supported by new laws protecting the names and images of deceased celebrities. ... Then he met Robyn Smith, a lithe, young jockey who had broken the sex barrier in thoroughbred racing. They were married June 24, 1980, when he was 81 and she was 35. ...
Jun 22, 1987 · “I just got in bed with him and put my arms around him and he died,” said Astaire’s widow, former jockey Robyn Smith, at a hospital news conference. ... Astaire married Smith, 35, a longtime ...
Aug 31, 1997 · Robyn Smith eventually made her MGM connection, but not according to the usual star-is-born script. By the late '70s, she was Fred Astaire's final dance partner, the one he whirled around the ...
Oct 4, 1975 · Robyn C. Smith, the model who turned jockey in 1969, scored the first riding triple of her career at Belmont Park yesterday, turning in the feat in consecutive faces for a perfeet afternoon.
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