 Outside of racing, Leonard worked as a ship painter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and painted apartments in the famed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village housing developments in Manhattan.In his later years, he served as a housesitter and airport driver for affluent retirees in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.A prolific athlete who rode 20 miles a day well into his 70s, he died of stomach cancer in 1989.