Charles E. "Charlie" Burr (May 14, 1934 – September 16, 2008) was an American Champion Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. In 1951, he became the seventh jockey in American Thoroughbred racing history to ride 300 or more winners in a single year.Charlie Burr was raised on a farm at Arkansas City, Kansas where he learned to ride horses at an early age. By age eleven he was competing and winning Quarter-Horse races. He rode for his uncle, Clarence ("Shorty") Burr, in races in his native Kansas as well as in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. He rode professionally for twenty-nine years at Thoroughbred racetracks in New York, the Mid-Atlantic States, as well as the South Florida metropolitan area. Wikipedia
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