Hugo Dittfach

Hugo Dittfach (20 September 1936 – 1 November 2021) was a Canadian jockey.^[1] Dittfach survived three years as a boy in a Soviet internment camp in Poland during and after World War II and went on to become a National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey in Canada where he would be inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Halton Hills Sports Museum Hall of Fame in 2017.^[2][3][4][5]

Hugo Dittfach
Occupation	Jockey, Trainer
Born	(1936-09-20)20 September 1936 Leer, Ostfriesland, Nazi Germany
Died	1 November 2021(2021-11-01) (aged 85) Beaverton, Ontario, Canada
Career wins	4,000
Major racing wins
Canadian Classic Race wins: Queen's Plate (1961) Prince of Wales Stakes (1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967) Breeders' Stakes (1958)
Racing awards
Canadian Champion Jockey by Wins (1965) Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey (1975) Avelino Gomez Memorial Award (1991)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1983) Halton Hills Sports Museum Hall of Fame (2017)
Significant horses
Anita's Son, Blue Light, Wonder Where