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This photograph features Thoroughbred owner Gladys Crosby "Gee" Hopkins Whitney Marvel Elliott, wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt "Sonny" Whitney at the time the photograph was taken; in conversation with steeplechase jockey Rigan McKinney.

This photograph features Rigan McKinney, steeplechase jockey, walking at Saratoga in a suit and hat. McKinney, inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1968.

This is a photograph of jockey Rigan McKinney up on Redshank in mid-jump at the Bridlespur Steeplechase Graded Handicap at Belmont in 1936.

McKinney claimed his first American Grand National victory in 1931 atop Green Cheese.