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This photograph features Thoroughbred owner James B. "Diamond Jim" Brady and jockey Arthur Redfern in conversation at Saratoga Race Course in 1905.

Brady, Gilded Age businessman and financier, is often remembered for his voracious appetite and…

This photograph features riders dismounting after the 1904 Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica Racetrack.

Jockey Samuel Doggett and groom with Charade after their win in the 1893 Metropolitan Handicap at Morris Park Racecourse in Westchester County, New York

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…

This photograph captures a 1967 trophy presentation at Keeneland. On the far left is Thoroughbred trainer, E.L. Cotton. Second from the left is Alma Headley Haggin, wife of former Keeneland President Louis Lee Haggin II.

Second from the right is…

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…

Jockey Earl Sande is pictured with George Hamlet Keene.

Earl Sande, the country’s top earner in 1921, 1923, and 1927, was inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame in 1955. His many stakes wins included three Kentucky Derbies (1923, 1925,…

This is a digitized daguerreotype of Edward Dudley Brown (1850-1906); born into slavery, after the civil war he became a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey (Kingfisher; 1870), a Kentucky Derby-winning trainer (Baden-Baden; 1877), and a Kentucky…

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…

This photograph shows Beldame racing with Eugene Hildebrand up at Morris Park in May of 1904 - the year in which Hildebrand was the country's top jockey by wins.

Beldame began her racing career in 1903 was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in…