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This photograph features Court Manor Stud yearlings arriving at Saratoga's yearling sale in August of 1937.

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 conformation shot of the American Thoroughbred and Hall of Famer Whirlaway was taken at Saratoga during his two-year-old season (1940).

Whirlaway, bred and foaled at Calumet Farm in 1938, was trained by Ben Jones. He was a multiple graded…

This photograph, taken on November 1, 1938, from the stands, features the match race between War Admiral & Seabiscuit hosted by Pimlico Race Course.

The match race, often dubbed the 'Match of the Century,' drew roughly 40,000 spectators.…

This photograph captures the Belmont Park Grandstand under reconstruction in April of 1941.

This photograph, taken in January of 1942, features two-year-olds being "schooled at the gate" at Hialeah Park Race Track.

This photograph, taken in 1927, features the infield and track at the Latonia Race Track.

The C.V. Whitney-bred and owned Tompion with trainer Robert Wheeler is captured arriving at the Blue Grass Airport for Keeneland’s 1960 Spring Meet as three unidentified men look on. Tompion was favored heading into the 1960 Kentucky Derby after his…

This photograph captures an infield view of a packed grandstand and apron during the running of the 1976 Blue Grass Stakes won by Honest Pleasure. The colt, piloted by Braulio Baeza, would finish second in the Kentucky Derby.

This image, reproduced from the Spirit of the Times, is of the American Thoroughbred Ten Broeck.

Ten Broeck was bred by John Harper and foaled near Midway, Kentucky, in June of 1872.

Ten Broeck set records at distances ranging from one to…