Multiple graded stakes-winning trainer Morris Nicks passed away on Nov. 25 after a battle with leukemia, reports bloodhorse.com. The veteran Southwest-based trainer was 74 years old.
Nicks passed the majority of his career between Louisiana Downs and Oaklawn Park. Since records began being tracked in 1976, Nicks saddled 819 Thoroughbred winners including Run Johnny in the 1999 Aristides Handicap (G3) at Churchill Downs and Golden Sonata in the 2004 Oaklawn Breeders' Cup Stakes (G3).
He is also the father of Breeders' Cup-winning trainer Ralph Nicks.
“Dad was an all-in horseman for the last 30 to 40 years of his life,” Ralph told bloodhorse.com. “If he had an afternoon off he was out buying supplies and hay for the rest of the week. He never took days off.”
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