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This photograph features jockey Eddie Arcaro with trainer James Edward "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons seated on a bench at Saratoga in August of 1958.

Arcaro, known as “The Master” of U.S. Thoroughbred racing, ascended to the country’s premier jockey…

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred owner Cornelia Averell Harriman Gerry and owner Ral Parr in conversation; as well as a patrol judge in conversation with Mrs. Frank Bishop at Saratoga.

This photograph features trainer Burley Elijah Parke with the Thoroughbred Noor. They are in a padded airplane stall after being transported to Saratoga Race Course in August of 1950. Noor is wearing leg wraps and a leather head bumper.

Parke…

This photograph features trainer Burley Elijah Parke with the Thoroughbred Noor.

Parke began his career as a jockey (second-leading rider in the country in 1921) before becoming an assistant trainer. As a trainer, he won nine Futurities at…

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 Warren Wright, Sr. and his wife, Lucille Parker Wright, owners of Calumet Farm..

This photograph was taken during the period in which Calumet reigned as one of America's most successful Thoroughbred horse racing operations.

This photograph features horses and jockeys on their approach to track at Saratoga in 1928.

This photograph features a group of men in suits and boater and fedora hats on the clubhouse terrace at Saratoga.

This photograph features a Thoroughbred horse auction at Saratoga in the early 20th century.

The photograph features eight jockeys in silks standing in a line at the jockey scales at Saratoga Racecourse in 1930.