George Monroe Woolf, nicknamed “The Iceman,” was a thoroughbred racehorse jockey.
Woolf was born on a ranch in Cardston in 1910 in a riding family. His mother was a trick rider in a circus, and his father was a rodeo rider.
Woolf learned to ride horses as a child, and as a teenager, he rode in horse races and competed in rodeo events in Alberta and Montana.
He became known for riding the people’s champion Seabiscuit to victories in 1938.
In 2010, marking the 100th anniversary of Woolf’s birth, a life-size equestrian statue was erected in his hometown of Cardston, Alberta, at its Remington Carriage Museum.
