Two nights before his death, Jimmy Sibille of Sunset, Louisiana, riding a horse called Joe Top, became the last jockey to win a night race at the Jefferson Downs track. Kleindorf found Jimmy on his back in bed, his head covered in blood with a .22-caliber revolver laying across his chest. “My God,” Kleindorf said to LeBlanc and the girls as he backed out the door, “He’s shot himself.”

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