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Morgan A69557B - Burley E Parke Trainer and Noor on Air Transport.jpg
This photograph features trainer Burley Elijah Parke with the Thoroughbred Noor.

Parke began his career as a jockey (second-leading rider in the country in 1921) before becoming an assistant trainer. As a trainer, he won nine Futurities at…

Morgan A69557D - Burley E Parke Trainer and Noor on Air Transport.jpg
This photograph features trainer Burley Elijah Parke with the Thoroughbred Noor. They are in a padded airplane stall after being transported to Saratoga Race Course in August of 1950. Noor is wearing leg wraps and a leather head bumper.

Parke…

22 Morgan A72123 - 1951-05-14 Robert C Bernhardt Jockey & Mrs Roger Seydoux aka Jacqueline Marguerite Doll-Schlumberger & Mrs William Woodward aka Elsie Ogden Cryder Woodward.jpg
This photograph pictured left to right features jockey Robert C. Bernhardt, Jacqueline Marguerite Doll-Schlumberger, Elsie Ogden Cryder Woodward and owner George Dunton Widener, Jr.

This photograph was taken at the the 1951 Toboggan Handicap at…

24 Morgan - 1948-01-06 Mr Warren Wright Owner and Mrs. Lucille Parker Wright Markey Owner Calumet Farm at Hialeah (2).jpg
Photograph of Calumet Farm owners Mr. and Mrs. Warren Wright (Lucille Parker Wright Markey) at Hialeah Park in 1948.

Morgan A83918 - Native Dancer with Olive Guerin up.jpg
This photograph shows jockey Oliver Eric Guerin up on Native Dancer in the saddling paddock at the 1953 Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct.

He won the 1947 Kentucky Derby aboard Jet Pilot for Elizabeth Arden of Maine Chance Farm.

Guerin rode Native…

17 Morgan A87391 - John Elliott Burch Trainer and Eddie Arcaro Jockey and Mrs Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane and Mrs Elsie Ogden Cryder Woodward (2).jpg
From left to right, this photograph features Thoroughbred trainer John Elliott Burch, jockey Eddie Arcaro, Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane, and Elsie Ogden Cryder Woodward.

06 - Morgan A93225 - 1955 Samuel San A Boulmetis Sr Jockey portrait.jpg
This photographic portrait features jockey Samuel "Sam" A. Boulmetis, Sr. in front of hanging silks at Belmont Park.

Boulmetis, Sr. was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1973. A few of his major wins include the Arlington Classic (1954,…

05 - Morgan A93241 - William Norris Bill Boland Jockey portrait.tif
This photographic portrait features jockey William "Bill" Norris Boland in front of hanging silks. Boland is in King Ranch silks, and the photograph was taken at Belmont Park.

Boland rose to prominence after winning the 1950 Kentucky Derby and…

02 - Morgan A93245 - 1955 Theodore Ted Frederick Atkinson Jockey portrait.jpg
This photographic portrait features jockey Ted Atkinson.

Atkinson began riding professionally at the age of 21. He rode War Relic in an upset victory over the 1941 Triple Crown Winner Whirlaway in the Narragansett Special. That ride gained him…

18 - Morgan B9131 - 1958 Ismael Milo Valenzuela Jockey portrait.jpg
This is a photographic portrait of jockey Ismael "Milo" Valenzuela.

He rose to prominence aboard Tim Tam in a near Triple Crown victory in 1958. Valenzuela and Tim Tam swept the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes but finished second in the…
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