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A bust of Jean Cruguet by caricature/humorist artist Peb shows the jockey with grass for hair and proclaims him the grass champ of 1979. A reference to 1978 Horse of the Year Eclipse Award winner Mac Diarmida.

This photograph features Play Fellow, Jean Cruguet up, dueling with Marfa in the 1983 Blue Grass Stakes. Play Fellow's win was Cruguet's first Blue Grass victory, and the colt's trainer, Harvey Vanier, would go on to claim another with Western…