Lenny Goodman (died September 24, 1996, in

Rockville Centre, New York Rockville Centre, commonly abbreviated as RVC, is an incorporated village located in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 24,023 at the 2010 census. Hist ...

) was a jockey's agent notable for having "served as coach, tutor and surrogate father for the teen-aged jockey

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". He has been described as the "William Morris of jockey agents" and a "nonpareil agent". Goodman was inducted into The Jockey Agent's Hall of Fame. Goodman was also the agent for

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, John Rotz,

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, Bill Hartack,

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and

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. Baeza referred to him as “"Double-07' because Goodman is an astute handicapper who rarely puts the jockey on the wrong horse. "I owe a lot to him," Braulio said.” During

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, he was a welder in the

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. A resident of

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, Goodman died at the age of 76 after several years of poor health after a stroke in 1993.

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