Career
In 1951, he became the seventh jockey in American Thoroughbred racing history to ride 300 or more winners in a single year. Charlie Burr was raised on a farm at Arkansas City, Kansas where he learned to ride horses at an early age. By age eleven he was competing and winning Quarter-Horse races.
He rode professionally for twenty-nine years at Thoroughbred racetracks in New York, the Mid-Atlantic States, as well as the South Florida metropolitan area.
An accident while exercising a horse at Maryland"s Bowie Race Track left Burr partially paralyzed and he would need a wheelchair for the next twenty-six years until he became bedridden in 2006. Charlie Burr died on September 16, 2008 in Arkansas City at age 74.