Aquedarctic
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts jockeys Johnny Velazquez, J.J. Castellano, Alex Estrada, C.C. Lopez, Shaun Xavier Bridgmohan, Mario Pino, Mike Luzzi, Edgar Prado, Lorenzo Lezcano, Julian Yesid Pimentel, Richard Migliore, Aaron Tod Gryder, and Jean-Luc Samyn during winter racing at New York’s Aqueduct Racetrack.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb GJBW455
2002
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Pen and ink; 13 x 19 in.
English
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Aqueduct Spring Opening
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts the opening of Aqueduct’s 1959 Spring Meet.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW703
1959
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Pen and ink; 9.5 x 16.5 in.
English
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Bill Shoemaker on the scales at Aqueduct
Photography of horse sports
This photograph features jockey William Lee "The Shoe" Shoemaker on the scales after riding his 300th win at Aqueduct in 1959.
Bill Shoemaker rode for 40 years, winning roughly 21.9% of 40,350 races before his retirement in 1990. He was America’s leading jockey ten times in money won and five times in races won.
He won the Kentucky Derby four times, aboard Swaps in 1955, Tomy Lee in 1959, Lucky Debonair in 1965, and Ferdinand in 1986 at the age of 54.
His 11 trips to Triple Crown winner’s circles also include his two Preakness Stakes wins (1963, 1967) and five Belmont Stakes wins (1957, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1975).
Shoemaker was inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1958. He won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1981.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan B14325
1959-10-10
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Brooklyn Handicap at Old Aqueduct Racetrack
Photography of horse sports
This photograph features the Brooklyn Handicap at the old Aqueduct Racetrack in 1917. The jockey, William "Willie" Knapp, is up on Borrow. Borrow ran the 1-1/8 mile race in 1:49-2/5, setting a new American record. Frank Robinson is up on Regret who came in second, while D. Connolly is up on Old Rosebud, who came in third.
Charles Christian Cook
Cook 13908
1917-06-25
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Gold Cup Trophy Presentation
Photography of horse sports
This photograph captures a 1960 Jockey Club Gold Cup trophy presentation at Aqueduct. On the far left is John W. Hanes. Hanes was President of the New York Racing Association from from 1954 to 1960 and President of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame from 1968 to 1970. Next to Hanes is Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro.
Behind Arcaro is Simon Wetherby, and to the right of Wetherby is Mrs. Richard du Pont, or Helena Allaire Crozer. Second from the right is Carl H. Hanford, and Edward Bird is on the far right.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan B18411
1960-10-29
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John L. Rotz
Photography of horse sports
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 leader in 1969 and 1970. He claimed wins in both the Preakness (aboard Greek Money, 1962) and Belmont Stakes (aboard High Echelon, 1970). Rotz won 2,907 races over his 20-year career and was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1983.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan T374
1961-04-28
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Keeping an Open Mind
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts Open Mind, American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in 1988 and American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly in 1989.
Owned by Eugene V. Klein and trained by D. Wayne Lukas, Open Mind won four of her six starts in 1988.
Her eight 1989 wins include the Forward Gal Stakes, Bonnie Miss Stakes, Pimlico Oaks, Kentucky Oaks, Acorn Stakes, Mother Goose Stakes, Coaching Club American Oaks, and the Alabama Stakes.
Open Mind’s Alabama Stakes victory marked her tenth consecutive win.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1266
1989
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Pen and ink; 16.75 x 12 in.
English
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Nashua with Jim Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct
Photography of horse sports
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 horses that won more than 470 stakes races. He was inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1958.
Nashua, U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1954), U.S. Champion Three-Year-Old Colt (1955), and U.S. Horse of the Year (1955), nearly claimed the Triple Crown in 1955. He won both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes but placed second in the Kentucky Derby.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan B1736
1956-10-15
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Oliver Guerin on Native Dancer at Aqueduct
Photography of horse sports
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 Dancer through his undefeated 1952. In 1953 Guerin and Native Dancer won both the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. Native Dancer earned the 3 Year Old Champion title in 1953 and Horse of the Year honors in 1954.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan A83918
1953-07-04
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Second Steeplechase Race at Aqueduct, 1927
Photography of horse sports
This photograph captures two horses in mid-jump at a steeplechase at Aqueduct in 1927. G. Smoot is the jockey on Ballast II, who came in first; and L. Cheyne is the jockey on Job, who came in second.
Charles Christian Cook
Cook 16870
1927-06-20
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