 During his career he won the riding title eight times at Chicago's Sportsman's Park and two at Oaklawn Park.Skoronski's most important Graded stakes race wins came aboard Challenge Me, a colt he rode to victory in the 1944 Arkansas Derby and the 1945 Hollywood Gold Cup.In 1992 Tony Skoronski was living in Cicero, Illinois when he suffered a heart attack while at the local racetrack and was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.