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This photograph features jockey Eddie Arcaro with trainer James Edward "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons seated on a bench at Saratoga in August of 1958.

Arcaro, known as “The Master” of U.S. Thoroughbred racing, ascended to the country’s premier jockey…

This photograph features legendary jockey Isaac Burns Murphy (third from the right), with several other guests at a clambake hosted by trainer Matt Byrnes following Murphy’s victory aboard Salvator in the 1890 Champion Stakes at Monmouth…

This photograph features businessman Clendenin James Ryan, Jr. and former jockey and then trainer for Oak Ridge Stables, John P. "Johnny" Loftus. Although it was not yet deemed the "Triple Crown," Loftus, atop Sir Barton, was the first jockey to win…

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred trainer and owner Samuel C. Hildreth, Hall of Fame jockey Mack Garner, and owner August Belmont II at Belmont's Suburban Handicap in 1916.

Belmont founded Belmont Park, served as the…

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred owner Ogden Phipps, trainer James Edward "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, jockey Eddie Arcaro, owner Gladys Livingston Mills Phipps, and an unidentified woman at the 1953 Demoiselle Stakes at…

This photograph features Thoroughbred owner and trainer Alphonse Plicque (left) and jockey Wallace Hicks (right).

This is a photographic portrait of the jockey Vincent Powers.

Powers achieved acclaimed success as both a jockey and trainer in the United States and Europe during the first three decades of the 20th century. He is the only rider to have ever led…

This is a digitized daguerreotype of the jockey William 'Billy' Walker.

Billy Walker (1860-1933) was an African-American jockey born into slavery near Versailles, Kentucky. Walker rode Baden-Baden (trained by black trainer Edward Dudley Brown) to…

This is a digitized daguerreotype of Edward Dudley Brown (1850-1906); born into slavery, after the civil war he became a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey (Kingfisher; 1870), a Kentucky Derby-winning trainer (Baden-Baden; 1877), and a Kentucky…

This photograph features Nashua with his trainer James Edward 'Sunny Jim' Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct.

Fitzsimmons won 13 Triple Crown race (and trained two Triple Crown winners; Gallant Fox and Omaha) and trained 12 champions and 155 stakes-winning…