Benoit, Bob
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Birthname | Robert Benoit | ||||
born on | 8 February 1927 at 20:45 (= 8:45 PM ) | ||||
Place | Gary, Indiana, 41n36, 87w21 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American chief operating officer and general manager since 1977 of the Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. In 2004, he became the first recipient of the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award, given by Hollywood Park to a person who served racing with "integrity, extraordinary dedication, determination, and distinction".
In 1951, Benoit became sports editor of the Inglewood Daily News.
He died of pneumonia on 15 August 2008 at Centinela Valley Hospital in Inglewood.
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate from Indiana archives.
Categories
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Pneumonia)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 81)
- Vocation : Business : Middle Management
- Vocation : Sports : Race Horses
- Vocation : Sports : Race Horses
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award
Categories:
- 1927 births
- Birthday 8 February
- Birthplace Gary, IN (US)
- Sun 19 Aquarius
- Moon 20 Taurus
- Asc 1 Libra
- 2008 deaths
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia
- Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Business : Middle Management
- Vocation : Sports : Race Horses
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
- Notable : Awards : Vocational award