Arts and Letters at the finish in 1969 Blue Grass Stakes
Photography of horse sports.
Arts and Letters, Bill Shoemaker up, in a commanding 15-length Blue Grass victory. Campaigned by Rokeby Stables, Arts and Letters gave Shoemaker his fifth Blue Grass win. The Racing Hall of Fame jockey would claim a sixth victory in 1982 aboard Linkage, making him the winningest jockey in the history of the stakes race.
Keeneland Association
1969
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Big Fish
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts racehorses Kelso (jockey Bill Shoemaker up), Carry Back, and Beau Purple before the 1962 Monmouth Handicap.
Beau Purple defeated Kelso in three of their four lifetime meetings. Although Carry Back had claimed the 1961 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, Kelso was named American Horse of the Year in 1961.
Carry Back won the 1962 Monmouth Handicap with jockey John L. Rotz up, conquering Kelso, the then two-time Horse of the Year.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1504
1962
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Pen and ink; 9 x 15 in.
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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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Boxing Jockeys – Team Hawley vs. Team Velasquez
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts jockeys Desmond Sanford “Sandy” Hawley, Patrick Angel “Pat” Valenzuela, Fernando Toro, Marco A. Castaneda, Russell Avery Baze, William Lee “Shoe” Shoemaker, Jorge Luis Velasquez, Angel Tomas Cordero, Jr., Patrick Alan “Pat” Day, Edward Retz “Eddie” Maple, and W. Herbert “Herb” McCauley.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb GJBW453
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Pen and ink; 16 x 12 in.
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Candy Spots
Photography of horse sports
This photograph captures Candy Spot’s arrival to Gainesway Farm in August of 1965.
Candy Spots (by Argentinian-bred Nigromante out of Candy Dish) was a multiple graded stakes-winning Thoroughbred foaled in California in 1960.
Candy Spots won the Arlington-Washington Futurity Stakes and Futurity Trial in his two-year-old season and was undefeated going into the Kentucky Derby the following year, claiming the 1963 Arlington Classic and the Jersey, Florida, Santa Anita, and American Derbies. He won the 1963 Preakness Stakes (Bill Shoemaker up).
He was unraced as a four-year-old and won the San Pasqual Handicap in his five-year-old season before being retired to stud in 1965 with a record of 12-5-1 from 22 starts and earnings of $824,718. His stud career was unremarkable.
Joel Clyne Meadors
1965-08-25
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Hollywood Derby Day
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts jockeys John Rotz, Alex Maese, Carlos Barrera, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Howard Douglas Grant, Eddie Belmonte, Jerry Lambert, Bill Shoemaker, Fernando Toro, Johnny Sellers, Alvaro Pineda, Bobby Nono, and Don Pierce in the Jockey Room on Hollywood Derby Day, 1973.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb GJBW464
1973
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Pen and ink; 16 x 18.5 in.
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International Jockey Challenge 2001
Horse racing in art
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts jockeys Bill Shoemaker, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Corey Nakatani, Kent Desormeaux, Victor Espinoza, Steve Cauthen, Frankie Dettori, Kieren Fallon, Olivier Peslier, and Johnny Murtagh as riders in the 2001 International Jockey Challenge at Santa Anita Park.
The 2001 International Jockey Challenge pitted four of America’s best riders against four of Europe’s best riders in a four-race challenge. Bill Shoemaker captained the U.S. team, and Steve Cauthen captained the European team.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
FC3721
2001
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 17 x 13 in.
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Jockeys Fever
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts jockeys Jerry Lambert, Braulio Baeza, Bill Shoemaker, and Howard Grant during their 1972 racing "fever."
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb GJBW469
1972
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Pen and ink; 11.5 x 14 in.
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Keeneland 1959 Spring Meet
Photography of horse sports
This photograph, taken at Keeneland on April 18, 1959, features jockeys (seated, left to right) Bill Shoemaker, Walter Blum, John Ruane, and Manuel Ycaza. The standing jockeys (left to right) are Bill Hartack, Jr., Johnny Sellers, James Nichols, C.E. Dominguez, Donald Oldham, and Steve Brooks.
Of the ten, six (Shoemaker, Blum, Ycaza, Hartack, Sellers, and Brooks) are U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees with more than 27,000 collective wins.
Joel Clyne Meadors
1959-04-18
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King Forego
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts Forego, American Horse of the Year for three consecutive years (1974 to 1976), still in the running for the 1977 title.
Also depicted are jockey Bill Shoemaker and racehorses Great Contractor, J.O. Tobin, Quiet Little Table, and Majestic Light.
Ultimately, Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew would claim the title of American Horse of the Year in 1977.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1709
1977
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Pen and ink; 13.5 x 19.25 in.
English
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