Ralph Neves at Pimlico

Ralph Neves at Pimlico

Photography of horse sports

This is a photograph of jockey Ralph P. Neves in silks walking with two other men at Pimlico in 1940.

Neves, prominent West Coast rider and American Hall of Fame jockey, won 3,772 total races and 173 stakes races over the course of his long career. When he retired in mid-1963, Neves was one of eight jockeys in the history of the sport at that time with at least 3,000 wins.

Bernard Stanley Morgan

1940-05-06

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