Fit!
Horse racing in art
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts racehorse Fit to Fight, 1984 Eclipse Award contender for Outstanding Older Male Horse, with trainer MacKenzie Miller and owner Paul Mellon. Mellon’s Rokeby Stables is depicted in Miller’s sweatshirt.
Fit to Fight became the fourth horse in history to win the New York Handicap Triple, joining U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees Whisk Broom II, Tom Fool, and Kelso.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FBW1941
1984
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Pen and ink; 16 x 13 in.
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Menow
Photography of horse sports
Conformation photograph of the American Thoroughbred Menow.
Menow, bred by Hal Price Headley, was the American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse in 1937. He was retired to stud at Beaumont Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1939. Menow sired 32 stakes winners, including Capot (Horse of the Year, 1949) and Tom Fool (Horse of the Year, 1953).
Charles Christian Cook
Cook 149
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Ted Atkinson
Photography of horse sports
This photographic portrait features jockey Ted Atkinson.
Atkinson began riding professionally at the age of 21. He rode War Relic in an upset victory over the 1941 Triple Crown Winner Whirlaway in the Narragansett Special. That ride gained him national recognition that continued over his 21-year career.
He was America’s leading jockey by wins and money earned in 1944 and 1946.
Atkinson won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes riding Greentree’s Capot in 1949. In 1953, he rode Tom Fool, Horse of the Year, for ten consecutive wins.
Atkinson received the George Woolf Memorial Award in 1957. He was inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame the same year.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan A93245
1955-06-09
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Tom Fool at Belmont Park
Photography of horse sports
This photograph, taken in November of 1953, features American Thoroughbred Tom Fool at Belmont Park.
Tom Fool, U.S. Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1951) and U.S. Horse of the Year (1953), is widely considered one of the top American racehorses of the 20th century. He retired to a successful stud career with a record of 30 starts for 21 wins, 7 seconds, and 1 third and earnings that exceeded $570,000.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan A85033
1953-11-04
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