Talk:Tod Sloan (jockey)

A fact from Tod Sloan (jockey) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 January 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones" and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/January.

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Substantial article on v. important figure. Too much unreferenced material. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 20:40, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]