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This photograph of Thoroughbred owners/breeders John Hay "Jock" Whitney (left) and Walter Morrison Jeffords, Sr. (right) was taken at the Whitney Handicap Trophy Presentation at Saratoga on August 10, 1929.

Jeffords owned Bateau, the winning horse…

This is a photograph of Ira Drymon - breeder, owner of Gallagher Stud, and former President of the Thoroughbred Club of America, with an unidentified horse in July of 1949.

Steeplechase jockey Rigan McKinney is pictured in 1938 with Gladys Crosby Whitney, the then wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.

McKinney rode primarily during the Great Depression years with much success, boasting winning percentages as high as…

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred owner Cornelia Averell Harriman Gerry and owner Ral Parr in conversation; as well as a patrol judge in conversation with Mrs. Frank Bishop at Saratoga.

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred trainer and owner Samuel C. Hildreth, Hall of Fame jockey Mack Garner, and owner August Belmont II at Belmont's Suburban Handicap in 1916.

Belmont founded Belmont Park, served as the…

This photograph features (from left to right) Thoroughbred owner Ogden Phipps, trainer James Edward "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, jockey Eddie Arcaro, owner Gladys Livingston Mills Phipps, and an unidentified woman at the 1953 Demoiselle Stakes at…

This photograph features Thoroughbred owner and trainer Alphonse Plicque (left) and jockey Wallace Hicks (right).

This photograph features Ira Drymon, breeder and former President of the Thoroughbred Club of America, with an unknown mare in foal to Polynesian.

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…

This photograph features the jockey William 'Bill' Norris Boland up on High Gun in the winner's circle of the Syonsby Stakes with Robert Kleberg, owner of King Ranch, at Belmont Park.

High Gun, the 1954 Belmont Stakes winner, was named U.S.…