Donald "Curly" Smith

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Channel: Official AQHA · 2014 · Pets & Animals

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Donald "Curly" Smith loved American Quarter Horse racing. Starting as a jockey's agent, he later became a saddling paddock judge before going to work in the racing office, eventually becoming the racing secretary at Los Alamitos Race Course and later the director of racing for the track. Smith was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2014.

View the bios of other Hall of Fame inductees at quarterhorsemuseum.com.

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