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  • Collection: Bernard Stanley Morgan Photograph Collection

Morgan A54508 - Rigan McKinney Steeplechase Jockey at Saratoga (2).jpg
This photograph features Rigan McKinney, steeplechase jockey, walking at Saratoga in a suit and hat. McKinney, inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1968.

14 - Morgan 94841 - 1940-05-06 Ralph P Neves Jockey at Pimlico 1.jpg
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…

Morgan B17750 - 1960-08-24 Patrick Pat Smithwick Jockey on Neji at Saratoga.jpg
This is a photograph of jockey Alfred "Paddy" Smithwick, on Neji at Saratoga.

According to his New York Times obituary, Smithwick was 5 feet 11 inches tall.

Hall of Famer (inducted 1972) Paddy Smithwick was the country’s top steeplechase rider…

Morgan A83918 - Native Dancer with Olive Guerin up.jpg
This photograph shows jockey Oliver Eric Guerin up on Native Dancer in the saddling paddock at the 1953 Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct.

He won the 1947 Kentucky Derby aboard Jet Pilot for Elizabeth Arden of Maine Chance Farm.

Guerin rode Native…

Morgan B1736 - 1956-10-15 Nashua with James Edward Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons Trainer at Aqueduct 5.jpg
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…

07 Morgan B1612 - 1956-10-01 Mrs Hirsch Jacobs aka Ethel D Jacobs Owner & Mrs Henry A Gerry aka Nancy Whitney Gerry at the Maskette Stakes trophy presentation at Belmont (2).jpg
This photograph captures a 1956 Maskette Stakes trophy presentation at Belmont Park. Pictured from from the left is trainer, Hirsch Jacobs, trainer of the winning horse, Searching, an unidentified man, jockey Conn McCreary in silks, Ethel D. Jacobs,…

16 - Morgan T374 - 1961 John Gentleman John L Rotz Jockey.jpg
This is a photographic portrait of jockey John "Gentleman John" L. Rotz.

Rotz, widely known as “Gentleman John” as a nod to his professionalism, received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1973. Rotz was the North American stakes race…

17 Morgan A87391 - John Elliott Burch Trainer and Eddie Arcaro Jockey and Mrs Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane and Mrs Elsie Ogden Cryder Woodward (2).jpg
From left to right, this photograph features Thoroughbred trainer John Elliott Burch, jockey Eddie Arcaro, Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane, and Elsie Ogden Cryder Woodward.

14 Morgan T1709 - 1961-09-02 Jack A Price Trainer and John Sellers Jockey and Katherine Price.jpg
This photograph captures the 1961 Jerome Handicap trophy presentation at Belmont Park. On the far left is the winning horse's (Carry Back) trainer, Jack A. Price. Next to him is Hall of Fame jockey John Sellers in silks. Katherine L. Price, owner of…

17 - Morgan A45892 - 1946-04-09 James Stout Jockey at Jamaica.jpg
This photographic print features jockey James Stout at Jamaica Racetrack in April 1946.

Stout accumulated 2,056 wins over his career. After Stout rode Seabiscuit in the horse’s first race in January 1935 at Hialeah Park, trainer “Sunny Jim”…
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