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This photograph features (from left to right) jockeys Mark Fator, Earl Sande, and Laverne Fator in silks standing against a shake-sided wall.

This photographic portrait features jockey Jack Gordon Westrope.

Born in Montana, Westrope was the son of racehorse owner and trainer W .T. Westrope. He was still an apprentice jockey when he collected 301 wins in 1933 at the age of 15. Westrope…

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…

This photographic portrait features jockey Benny Marinelli.

Benny Marinelli began his riding career in 1920 at East Coast tracks. He spent the 1921 winter meet season at the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico before returning to the U.S.…

This photographic portrait features jockey Arthur Mortensen.

Mortensen had just turned 16 when he was named leading U.S. jockey by wins in 1925.

With 187 wins that year from 987 mounts, he finished in the money 470 times with earnings of just…

This is a photographic portrait of jockey Mark Fator.

Fator held the title for the country’s top jockey by wins in 1922.

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

This photograph features a horse being saddled at Belmont Park in a field surrounded by trees.

This is a photographic portrait of the jockey William "Willie" Knapp.

Two of Knapp's notable wins include the 1918 Kentucky Derby aboard Exterminator and his 1919 Sanford Stakes victory over Man o’ War aboard Upset.

William Knapp was…

This photographic portrait features jockey Clarence Kummer.

Kummer rode Man o’ War to nine of his 11 wins in 1920. He led the country’s jockeys with earnings totaling $292,376 that year, picking up his first Preakness and Belmont Stakes victories…