Bill Shoemaker on the scales at Aqueduct
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This photograph features jockey William Lee "The Shoe" Shoemaker on the scales after riding his 300th win at Aqueduct in 1959.
Bill Shoemaker rode for 40 years, winning roughly 21.9% of 40,350 races before his retirement in 1990. He was America’s leading jockey ten times in money won and five times in races won.
He won the Kentucky Derby four times, aboard Swaps in 1955, Tomy Lee in 1959, Lucky Debonair in 1965, and Ferdinand in 1986 at the age of 54.
His 11 trips to Triple Crown winner’s circles also include his two Preakness Stakes wins (1963, 1967) and five Belmont Stakes wins (1957, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1975).
Shoemaker was inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1958. He won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1981.
Bernard Stanley Morgan
Morgan B14325
1959-10-10
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Sophie Tucker with Jockeys at Saratoga
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This photograph of Sophie Tucker and jockeys was taken at Saratoga Racecourse in July of 1936. Tucker, a Ukrainian-American actress, comedian, and radio personality, is standing on a jockey scale holding a saddle and saddle towel. Eight jockeys in flanking lines on either side of the the scale are also pictured, and observers are visible in the background.
Charles Christian Cook
Cook 387
1936-07-30
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Jockeys at Saratoga
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The photograph features 16 jockeys in silks standing in a line at the jockey scales at Saratoga Racecourse in August of 1930.
Charles Christian Cook
Cook 394
1930-08-08
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Jockeys at the Saratoga Scales
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The photograph features eight jockeys in silks standing in a line at the jockey scales at Saratoga Racecourse in 1930.
Charles Christian Cook
Cook 395
1930-08-08
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Earl Sande on Scales
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This photograph features jockey Earl Sande holding his saddle and saddle towel on the scales.
Earl Sande, inducted in the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1955, was one of the country’s most popular jockeys in the 1920s and 1930s. He had a career 26.4% winning percentage, and his many stakes wins included three Kentucky Derby (1923, 1925, 1930), five Belmont Stakes (1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1930), and five Jockey Club Gold Cup (1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1930) victories. He won the Triple Crown in 1930 atop Gallant Fox. Sande was one the country’s top riders in 1921, 1923, and 1927.
Charles Christian Cook
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Burns on the Scales
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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. Louis Derby aboard Sam Phillips, and the Manhattan in 1899 on O’Leary and in 1903 on Castalian. Burns rode W.C. Whitney’s Gunfire to victory in the 1903 Metropolitan Handicap and James R. Keene’s Delhi to claim the 1905 Brooklyn Handicap. Other notable wins include the 1905 Saratoga and Twin City Handicaps, and a second Tennessee Derby in 1906.
Thomas Burns was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1983
John C. Hemment
Hemment v. 2 1545
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