This photograph shows Holy Bull, Mike Smith up, at the finish of the 1994 Blue Grass Stakes with Valiant Nature and Mahogany Hall trailing. Taking the Blue Grass by 3 1/2 lengths, the race gave Mike Smith back-to-back Blue Grass wins.
Racing Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith piloting Prairie Bayou to their 1993 Blue Grass victory. Prairie Bayou, future Champion Three-Year-Old Male, finished second in the Kentucky Derby before winning the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in his next start.
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith.
He set the North American Stakes record of the time with 62 victories in 1993. He followed his record-breaking Stakes streak of 1993 with a new record of 67 wins in 1994 and…