Riding Career:
1914 - 1932
Significant Mounts
Clyde Van Dusen, Damrosch, Jamestown, Mother Goose,
Twenty Grand, Whiskery
Major Race Wins
Preakness Stakes (1916)
Connaught Cup (1916)
Woodstock Stakes (1916)
Metropolitan Handicap (1918, 1930)
Champagne Stakes (1919, 1926, 1929)
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1920, 1923)
Alabama Stakes (1920, 1926, 1930)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1920)
Kentucky Oaks (1921)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1922, 1929, 1930)
Test Stakes (1922)
Tremont Stakes (1923, 1928)
Washington Handicap (1923)
Sanford Stakes (1924, 1929)
Demoiselle Stakes (1924, 1926, 1928, 1930)
Astoria Stakes (1924, 1925, 1926, 1930)
Belmont Futurity (1924, 1928, 1930)
Queens County Handicap (1926)
Carter Handicap (1926)
Matron Stakes (1926, 1929)
Jerome Handicap (1926, 1928)
Manhattan Handicap (1926, 1929)
Kentucky Derby (1927, 1929)
Laurel Futurity (1928)
Flash Stakes (1928, 1930)
Schuylerville Stakes (1928)
Gazelle Stakes (1928)
Empire City Handicap (1929)
Adirondack Stakes (1929)
Travers Stakes (1931)
Whitney Handicap (1931)
Withers Stakes (1931)
Jamaica Handicap (1931)
Wood Memorial Stakes (1932)
Awards / Honors
United States Champion Jockey by Earnings (1928)
United States Racing Hall of Fame (1956)
John Linus McAtee was an American Hall of Fame jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He went by his middle name, Linus, but was nicknamed "Pony" by friends and would be called that by some in the press. While still an apprentice, he rode for Commander J. K. L. Ross in Canada then was aboard his colt Damrosch for the win in the 1916 Preakness Stakes.
Called one of the best riders of his era by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, McAtee developed into a superior tactician who won two Kentucky Derbys and who was the United States Champion Jockey in money earned for 1928. After retiring from racing in 1932, a comeback attempt three years later ended after he suffered a serious foot injury. In 1956, he was inducted in the United States' Racing Hall of Fame.
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