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  • Collection: Charles Christian Cook Photograph Collection

Cook 394.jpg
The photograph features 16 jockeys in silks standing in a line at the jockey scales at Saratoga Racecourse in August of 1930.

Cook 391.jpg
This photograph features jockeys at Saratoga Racecourse sitting on the back of a bench in silks. The jockeys are pictured in front of the jockey's quarters with saddle towels and other equipment. The third jockey from the left is James Stout; the…

Cook 387.jpg
This photograph of Sophie Tucker and jockeys was taken at Saratoga Racecourse in July of 1936. Tucker, a Ukrainian-American actress, comedian, and radio personality, is standing on a jockey scale holding a saddle and saddle towel. Eight jockeys in…

Cook 382 - Silvio Coucci Jockey portrait.jpg
This photographic portrait features jockey Silvio Coucci.

Coucci, a native New Yorker, was recruited to ride for Greentree Stable in 1932 after an impressive season at the Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico.

In 1934, in a close…

Cook 329.jpg
Pictured (left to right) are jockeys Frank O’Neill, Thomas H. Burns, and Willie Shaw in 1905. Shaw won on 19 percent of his 288 mounts that year.

Frank O’Neill took major U.S. races at the turn of the century, including the Brooklyn Handicap on…

Cook 2308 - 1936 Rear of grandstand at Hialeah (2).jpg
This photograph features the rear of the grandstand at Hialeah in 1936.

Cook 2285.jpg
This photograph features the judge's stand and grandstand at City Park Race Track in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bennings (2).jpg
This photograph features a crowd in the betting shed at Benning Race Track in Washington, D.C.

Cook 2129 - Pari-mutuel windows in grandstand at Hialeah (2).jpg
This photograph captures a crowd of people at the pari-mutuel windows at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida.

Cook 2116 - 1937-02-27 Jockeys and young people on a fence at the Hialeah small.jpg
The image features jockeys and spectators sitting on the rail at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida in February of 1937.
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