Career
On June 25, 1964 he rode five straight winners at Ohio"s Thistledown Racecourse. His five wins in the Turfway Park Fall Championship Stakes is the most by any jockey as at 2009. Citing safety concerns, in 1968 Manganello was part of a group of jockeys competing at Churchill Downs who signed an informal agreement declaring that they would not compete against Penny Ann Early who was trying to become the first female jockey to ride in a race at a major racetrack in the United States.
Mike Manganello retired from riding in 1979 and went to work as a horse trainer with his own public stable but returned to riding in 1984.
He went on to a new career in racing as a race steward at River Downs Racetrack.
