Herb Lindberg

Gunnar Herbert "Herb" Lindberg (November 8, 1909 - August 2, 1983) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racing jockey whose family emigrated from Sweden when he was nine years old. Attracted to horse racing in his late teens he went to the United States where he would work as an exercise rider for Brookmeade Stable for five years. Jockeys usually are in their prime by age 25, but Lindberg only rode in his first race at that age in 1934 at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.

Before long, Lindberg’s riding skills resulted in his services being sought out by prominent owners in both Canada and the U.S. such as Jock Whitney, Samuel McLaughlin, Walter M. Jeffords Sr., Edward F. Seagram, Conn Smythe, Louis B. Mayer, E. P. Taylor, and George D. Widener Jr., among others. In 1935 Lindberg had his most important Canadian win when he rode the Seagram filly Sally Fuller to victory in Canada’s most prestigious race, the King's Plate. Lindberg followed that success with a second prestigious win coming in the Breeders' Stakes aboard another of Seagram’s horses, Gay Sympathy. Both races would become part of the Canadian Triple Crown series when formally established in 1959.^[1] Lindbergh won a second Breeders' Stakes in 1946 aboard Windfields owned by E. P. Taylor who would name his world renown breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario.