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This photograph, taken in May of 1946, features jockey Wayne Danforth Wright up on Polynesian.

Wright was the leading North American jockey twice in his 18-year career for earnings, in both 1934 and 1936.

Polynesian, the 1945 Preakness Stakes…

This photograph features Nashua with his trainer James Edward 'Sunny Jim' Fitzsimmons at Aqueduct.

Fitzsimmons won 13 Triple Crown race (and trained two Triple Crown winners; Gallant Fox and Omaha) and trained 12 champions and 155 stakes-winning…

This photograph features the Hall of Fame American Thoroughbred Myrtlewood.

Myrtlewood, widely remembered for her match race victory against Miss Merriment at Keeneland in 1936, claimed the U.S. Champion Sprint Horse that same year.

This photograph features the American Thoroughbred Kelso with an unidentified handler.

Kelso won Horse of the Year in 1960 - a title he held for five consecutive years (1960 to 1964). With his record of 63 starts for 39 wins, 12 seconds, and 2…

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.…

This photograph was taken mid-race during the Ashland Oaks Stakes at the Kentucky Association Race Track.

This photograph shows the track and crowd at the 1893 American Derby held at the Washington Park Race Track outside of Chicago, Illinois.

This photograph shows jockey Oliver Eric Guerin up on Native Dancer in the saddling paddock at the 1953 Dwyer Stakes at Aqueduct.

He won the 1947 Kentucky Derby aboard Jet Pilot for Elizabeth Arden of Maine Chance Farm.

Guerin rode Native…

This photograph features trainer Burley Elijah Parke with the Thoroughbred Noor. They are in a padded airplane stall after being transported to Saratoga Race Course in August of 1950. Noor is wearing leg wraps and a leather head bumper.

Parke…

This photograph features trainer Burley Elijah Parke with the Thoroughbred Noor.

Parke began his career as a jockey (second-leading rider in the country in 1921) before becoming an assistant trainer. As a trainer, he won nine Futurities at…