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  • Collection: Charles Christian Cook Photograph Collection

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 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 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 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 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 395.jpg
The photograph features eight jockeys in silks standing in a line at the jockey scales at Saratoga Racecourse in 1930.

02 Cook 1123 - Miss Elizabeth Lizzie P Daingerfield and WR William Robertson Coe  (2).jpg
Photograph of Elizabeth P. Daingerfield and William Robertson Coe. Daingerfield, farm manager and horsewoman, is conversing with Coe to her right. Coe, businessman and Thoroughbred owner and enthusiast, is smoking a cigarette and holding what looks…

Cook 2043.jpg
This photograph features a start of a race at Hialeah Park Race Track.

Cook 2055.jpg
This photograph provides an aerial view of the grandstand, clubhouse, track, parking area, and stables at Hialeah Park Race Track.

Cook 2062 (2).jpg
Photograph of Ogden Mills (left), American financier and Thoroughbred owner, holding a trophy. His daughter, Gladys Livingston Mills Phipps (Mrs. H.C. Phipps), is to his right displaying a tray.
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