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This photograph features jockey Thomas H. Burns on the scales, with his weigh in overseen by a Clerk of Scales.

Thomas Burns was the country’s top jockey by wins in 1898 and 1899. He claimed the 1898 Tennessee Derby atop Lieber Karl, the 1900 St.…

This photograph features the jockeys (from left to right) Thomas H. Burns and John J. Bullman,

Thomas Burns was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1983

John Bullman won two consecutive Belmont stakes on Masterman…

Pictured (left to right) are jockeys Frank O’Neill, Thomas H. Burns, and Willie Shaw in 1905. Shaw won on 19 percent of his 288 mounts that year.

Frank O’Neill took major U.S. races at the turn of the century, including the Brooklyn Handicap on…