Tod Sloan Famous Jockey Seriously Ill - Tod Sloan with ***** Carnera, photographed during the boxer's visit to Los Angeles. Tod Sloan the famous jockey is reported to by dying of a liver ailment in a hospital at Los Angeles. Tod Sloan has been twice married and twice divorced. His last marriage followed a whirlwind courtship of the film actress. Betty Saxon. Sloan the most successful jockey of his time in England and America is now 59. Thirty years ago he revolutionised the style of race riding in England with his "crouch" seat. January 9, 1934.