Ángel Tomás Cordero Jr. is one of the leading thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of the late 20th-century and the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the United States' Racing Hall of Fame. He led all jockeys in wins at Saratoga Race Course for thirteen years. Cordero rode three Kentucky Derby winners and won over 6000 races in his career.
James Gordon Rowe Sr. was an American jockey and horse trainer elected to the Hall of Fame for Thoroughbred Horse racing. He won the Belmont Stakes twice as a jockey and 8 times as a trainer. He had 34 champion horses to his credit, more than any other trainer in the Hall of Fame.
James A. McLaughlin was an American National Champion jockey in Thoroughbred racing and a Hall of Fame inductee.
James Stout was an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won four Triple Crown races.
Robert Wyndham Walden was one of the most successful American trainers in thoroughbred horse racing during the last quarter of the 19th century. He was inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1970.
Craig Perret is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding quarter horses in match races. At age fifteen he began his career in thoroughbred racing and in 1967 was the leading apprentice jockey in the United States in terms of money won.
John R. Velazquez is a Puerto Rican jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing. He began his career in Puerto Rico and moved to New York in 1990. In 2004 and 2005 he was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings and both years was given the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey. He was inducted into the Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2012, rode his 5,000th winner in 2013, and became the leading money-earning jockey in the history of the sport in 2014.
Frederick J. "Fred" Taral was an American Hall of Fame jockey.
Alfred Masson Robertson was a Hall of Fame jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.
Albert M. Johnson was an American Hall of Fame jockey and trainer. Born in the rural community of Milan, Washington, Albert Johnson began his career in 1917 at Playfair Race Track in nearby Spokane.
Belmar was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owned by James Galway's Preakness Stables of Preakness, New Jersey.
Nash Turner (1881–1937) was an American Hall of Fame jockey who competed in Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States and France.
John L. Rotz was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and a World Champion in Western riding competitions.
William Norris "Bill" Boland is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing.
Pasteurized was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1938 Belmont Stakes.
Robert Livingston Gerry Sr. was an American businessman and owner of thoroughbred racehorses.
Samuel Jesse "Sam" Doggett was one of the leading American Thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of the 1890s and a founding director of the Horsemen's Protective Association who went on to train and own racehorses.
William Henry "Harry" Blaylock was a jockey in Thoroughbred racing who met with success both in the United States and his native Canada. In 1893 he won the Queen's Plate which became Canada's most important race and is the oldest continuously run race for Thoroughbred horses in North America.
The Juvenile Stakes was a Thoroughbred horse race run for 109 years between 1874 and 1984. First run on June 13, 1874, it was an important part of Jerome Park's "Spring Meeting." The race was designed to show which were the top two-year-olds at that point in the calendar.
The 1901 Preakness Stakes was the 26th running of the $2,500 Preakness Stakes, a Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run on May 28, 1901 at the Gravesend Race Track on Coney Island, New York. The one mile, 70 yard race was won by The Parader over runner-up Sadie S. The race was run on a track rated heavy in a final time of 1:47 1/5.
