Edward J. “Eddie” Delahoussaye
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts Eddie Delahoussaye, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey.
Delahoussaye won seven Breeders' Cup races over the course of his career and claimed the Kentucky Derby riding Gato Del Sol in 1982 and Sunny’s Halo in 1983.
In his 34 years of racing, according to Equibase,com Delahoussaye won 6,383 races with earnings exceeding $195 million. He was honored with the George Woolf Memorial Award in 1981 and was inducted in the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ002
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 14 x 9.75 in.
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Theodore Francis “Ted" Atkinson
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts Ted Atkinson, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey.
Ted Atkinson (1916-2005) began riding professionally at the age of 21. In his first decade of riding he rose to America’s leading jockey by wins and money earned in 1944 and 1946.
Atkinson rode War Relic in an upset victory over the 1941 Triple Crown Winner Whirlaway in the Narrangansett Special. That ride gained him the national recognition that continued throughout his 21-year career.
Atkinson won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes riding Greentree’s Capot in 1949 and the New York Handicap Triple riding Tom Fool in 1953. Of his 23,661 career mounts, he considered Tom Fool the best and brightest horse he ever rode, writing in his diary that “Tom Fool had muscles in his eyebrows.” Atkinson rode the colt to win all of his ten races in 1953 — the same year in which Tom Fool won the American Horse of the Year honors.
Atkinson received the George Woolf Memorial Award and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame in 1957.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ003
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 12 x 8.5 in
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William Lee “Bill" Shoemaker
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts Bill Shoemaker, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey, atop his four Kentucky Derby winners: Ferdinand, Lucky Debonair, Tomy Lee, and Swaps.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ004
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 17 x 11.5 in.
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Steven Mark “Steve” Cauthen
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Steve Cauthen.
Steve Cauthen, son of a farrier and trainer, rode his first race at the age of 16. Within his first year of professional riding, he became America’s top rider by earnings, winning $6,151,750 (1977).
At the age of 18, Cauthen became the youngest jockey in U.S. history to win the Triple Crown (Affirmed). He was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year in 1978.
Cauthen was presented the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1984 and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 1994.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ005
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 12 x 7.5 in.
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Donna Barton Brothers
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. jockey Donna Barton Brothers. Brothers began her 11-year racing career in 1987. At her retirement in 1998, she had won 1,130 races with earnings exceeding $18.6 million. Brothers began working as an on-air racing analyst in 1998.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb JBW383
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 13 x 10 in.
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Braulio Baeza
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Braulio Baeza.
Braulio Baeza (b. 1940) was born in Panama and moved to the U.S. in 1960. In his first year Baez was already working his way up the ranks of top jockeys in the U.S.
Baeza was the leading money winner in America from 1965 to 1969. He was awarded the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1968 and the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1972 and 1975.
He was among the first Latino jockeys to capture a Derby victory, riding Chateaugay to the win in 1963. He won the Belmont Stakes three times (1961, 1963, 1969) before competing in Europe and Canada.
Baeza was inducted in the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 1976, and he retired that same year with a total of 3,140 U.S. wins.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ008
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 11 x 11 in.
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John “Johnny” Sellers
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Sellers.
Sellers (1937-2010) began riding professionally in 1955. He finished in the top 10 nationally in earnings five times that decade and won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes riding Carry Back in 1961. In that same year, Sellers was the U.S. leading jockey by wins with 328 victories.
Sellers was honored with the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1969 and was inducted in the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ044
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 10.75 x 10.5 in.
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Michael Earl “Mike” Smith
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith.
He set the North American Stakes record of the time with 62 victories in 1993. He followed his record-breaking Stakes streak of 1993 with a new record of 67 wins in 1994 and exceeded 5,000 career wins in 2012.
Smith won the Kentucky Derby in 2005 (Giacomo), the Belmont Stakes in 2010 (Drosselmeyer) and 2013 (Palace Malice), and the Preakness Stakes in 1993 (Prairie Bayou). In 2018, Smith became the oldest jockey to win the Triple Crown aboard Justify at the age of 52.
He won Eclipse Awards in both 1993 and 1994 for Outstanding Jockey.
Smith was awarded the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 2000 and was inducted in the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 2003.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb CJ013
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 14 x 10 in.
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Christopher Wiley “Chris” Antley
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts jockey Chris Antley sketching a caricature of the artist.
Chris Antley (1966-2000) began riding professionally in 1983. By 1985, he was North America’s leading jockey by wins. Antley won his first Kentucky Derby in 1991 riding Strike the Gold, and he took both the Preakness Stakes and Derby in 1999 aboard Charismatic.
Antley and Charismatic finished third in the 1999 Belmont Stakes after Charismatic suffered a leg injury during the stretch run. Antley held the colt’s fractured leg at the finish line until help arrived.
Antley was inducted in the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in 2015 with 3,480 career wins and earnings exceeding $92 million.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb JBW061
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Pen and ink; 8.5 x 8 in.
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Angel Tomas Cordero, Jr.
Horse racing in art
Peb's artwork depicts U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero, Jr.
Cordero moved from his native Puerto Rico to the States to ride professionally in 1962. He became the first jockey to earn more than $9 million in a season in 1982, and he topped North American jockeys in earnings in 1976, 1982, and 1983.
Cordero won his first Kentucky Derby riding Cannonade in 1974. He took the Derby again in 1976 riding Bold Forbes and in 1985 aboard Spend A Buck. Cordero won the Belmont Stakes in 1976 (Bold Forbes) and the Preakness Stakes in 1980 (Codex) and 1984 (Gate Dancer). He won four Breeders' Cup races between 1985 and 1989 and claimed the leading riding title at Saratoga 14 times.
He won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1982 and 1983.
Cordero retired with a career record of 7,057 wins and earnings exceeding $164 million.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb JBW124
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Pen and ink; 13 x 10 in.
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