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.
English
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John “Johnny” Sellers
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Sellers.
Sellers (1937-2010) began riding professionally in 1955. He finished in the top 10 nationally in earnings five times that decade and won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes riding Carry Back in 1961. In that same year, Sellers was the U.S. leading jockey by wins with 328 victories.
Sellers was honored with the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1969 and was inducted in the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ044
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 10.75 x 10.5 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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Jerome Handicap Trophy Presentation
Photography of horse sports
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 Carry Back, is on the far right.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan T1709
1961-09-02
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