Hail to Reason with Ussery up at the Hopeful Stakes
Photography of horse sports
Photograph of Hail to Reason (Bobby Ussery up) winning Saratoga’s 1960 Hopeful Stakes by ten lengths.
Hail to Reason, multiple stakes-winning Thoroughbred, was named American Champion Two-Year-Colt in 1960. He retired to stud at Hagyard Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, with a record of 9-2-2 from 18 starts, with earnings of $328,434. Hail to Reason was the top sire in North America in 1970.
Robert Nelson ‘Bobby’ Ussery’s racing career spanned more than two decades (1951 – 1974). Ussery was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1980.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan B17785
1960-08-27
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black and white photograph
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A Midwinter Night’s Dream
Horse racing in art
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts U.S. Hall of Fame jockey Bobby Ussery with the gelding Lion Sleeps, winner of the Coral Gables, New Year’s, and Super Bowl Handicaps in the winter of 1970/1971.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1627
1971
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Pen and ink; 13 x 14.75 in.
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Damascus & Proud Clarion
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts Proud Clarion, winner of the 1967 Kentucky Derby, pitted against Damascus in the 1967 Belmont Stakes. Although Proud Clarion (jockey Bobby Ussery up) was the Derby victor, Damascus claimed both the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness in 1967. Proud Clarion, of Darby Dan Farm, finished third in the Preakness and fourth in the Belmont.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1577
1967
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Pen and ink; 12 x 11 in.
English
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Triple Honey
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts racehorse Spicy Living under a “Triple Crown Honey” beehive hanging in the Coaching Club American Oaks “tree” of 1963. The Coaching Club American Oaks was run at Aqueduct Racetrack that year.
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Bobby Ussery, winner of the 1962 American Oaks riding Bramalea, is also depicted; as well as racehorses Smart Deb, Bramalea, Funloving, Cicada, and Bowl of Flowers.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1512
1963
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Pen and ink; 12.75 x 17.75 in.
English
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