Browse Items (50 total)

This photograph captures spectators at the entrance of Belmont Park in Elmont, New York in 1905 - the year in which the facility opened.

This photograph features a crowd of spectators on the lawn at Belmont Park.

This photograph depicts Twenty Grand on the way to the winner's circle at Belmont Park in 1931. He is being led by owner Helen Julia Hay Whitney. The jockey up is Charles E. Kurtsinger, also known as "Charley" and "The Flying Dutchman."…

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred trainer and owner Samuel C. Hildreth, Hall of Fame jockey Mack Garner, and owner August Belmont II at Belmont's Suburban Handicap in 1916.

Belmont founded Belmont Park, served as the…

This photograph features (from left to right) Alfred Gwynne "A.G." Vanderbilt, Jr., jockey John Gilbert, and Thoroughbred owner Ogden Phipps at the 1941 Withers Stakes at Belmont Park.

King Cole, owned by Phipps and ridden by Gilbert, claimed the…

This photograph features the back of the Turf and Field Club at Belmont Park.

This photograph, taken on September 13, 1919, at the Belmont Futurity (raced to the right, or clockwise), features the American Thoroughbred John P. Grier (Eddie Ambrose up) trailing Man o’ War (Johnny Loftus up) in Man o’ War’s final start of his…

This photograph, taken on September 13, 1919, at the Belmont Futurity, features the American Thoroughbred Man o’ War with jockey Johnny Loftus at Man o’ War’s final start of his two-year-old season. Also pictured is Man o' War's groom Frank Loftus.…

American Thoroughbreds Man o' War and Hoodwink in the 1920 Lawrence Realization Stakes at Belmont Park (raced to the right, or clockwise).

In this photograph, the only other entry in the race, Hoodwink (Eddie Ambrose up), trails Man o’ War…

This photograph features Thoroughbred owners William Collins Whitney (left) and August Belmont II (right).

Whitney, financier, political reformer, and Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, founded his Thoroughbred breeding operation at…