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Joseph E. Widener	In 1901, thirty-year-old Joseph Widener began purchasing Thoroughbred horses to compete in both flat racing and steeplechase events.
Cheri Elliott	She made a brief two race comeback in late 1989 for a few months of racing, including the ABA Fall Nationals and the ABA Grandnationals that year, while being awarded her BMX Hall of Fame Induction.
Jon Court	Court repeated his win in the Arkansas Derby in 2011 with Archarcharch, trained by his father-in-law, Jinks Fires.
Michael Stoute	In 2009, three horses trained by Stoute, Conduit, Tartan Bearer and Ask, pulled off a rare feat when the trio of horses made a clean sweep of the placings at the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Nathaniel Morse	Moore was a prominent member of the Nelson Jockey Club and a successful breeder of race horses ; his horse Ladybird won the 1863 New Zealand Championship Race in Dunedin.
John L. Lively	He had been riding for eleven years when he began receiving nation-wide attention in 1979 for riding Elocutionist to victory in the Arkansas Derby for trainer Paul Adwell and owner Gene Cashman.
Kent Desormeaux	His immediate success and big break led to him moving north to compete on the Maryland racing circuit in 1987 where his performance earned him the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey.
John L. Lively	John L. Lively is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won 3,468 career races, including the 1976 Preakness Stakes, as well as ten riding titles at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha, Nebraska plus two at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas and another at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Francine Villeneuve	On October 31, 2011 in one of her final races, she rode Red Hot Doll to victory in the $ 30,000 Fan's Cup at Fort Erie Race Track for career win number 1,000.
Debi Laszewski	Since 2009, Laszewski has placed in the top six of every single Ms. International and Ms. Olympia held that year.
Willie Ryan (jockey)	He joined Henry Cecil's stable and was second jockey to Steve Cauthen before becoming first jockey in 1993.
Harry Wragg	In 1961 Wragg trained his first Derby winner when Psidium, who was considered the stable's second string, won at Epsom at odds of 66/1.
William Shatner	Saddle seat attire at a -LSB- -LSB- horse show in 2011 -RSB- -RSB- In his spare time, Shatner enjoys breeding and showing American Saddlebred s and Quarter Horse s. Shatner rode one of his own horses, a mare named Great Belles of Fire, in his role as James T. Kirk in Star Trek Generations.
McLain Ward	November 28, 2012 Ward wins $ 10,000 Welcome Stake aboard Ilan Ferder and Missy Clark's Zhum CW.
Matti Breschel	In 2008 his best season came and he got his first big international breakthrough when he on 8 June 2008, won the Philadelphia International Championship also known as the Commerce Bank International Championship in Philadelphia, PA where he outsprinted all contenders in a little bunch sprint after a long and hard race.
Rosie Napravnik	Napravnik rode in the Preakness Stakes for the first time in 2013, finishing third on Mylute.
Roger Laurin	For Moseley he most notably conditioned the filly Drumtop who won numerous top stakes and who broke three track records in 1971.
Tommy J. Smith	Smith's reputation as an emerging trainer was further enhanced with the success of Playboy, which he also owned, in the 1949 AJC Derby, giving Smith his first Group 1 winner and the first of 35 derby winners Smith trained in Australia.
Lord William Beresford	In England, Beresford's filly Sibola won the 1899 1,000 Guineas Stakes, and came second in the Epsom Oaks.
Sam Maple	In 1979, he rode Smarten to wins in four Derbys, capturing the American, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Derby s.
Mary Roberts (bodybuilder)	When the 1984 Ms. Olympia continued this trend -- winner Cory Everson was the tallest (5-8) and heaviest (148 pounds) competitor, brought very broad shoulders and large thighs -- Roberts third-place placing brought some controversy.
Katherine Ritvo	She went on to race Mucho Macho Man in 2012, where he won three graded stakes race s.
Iris Kyle	In 2006, Iris rebounded by regaining both her Ms. International and Ms. Olympia titles.
Chantal Sutherland	Sutherland finished second in the 2009 Woodbine jockey standings with earnings of $ 7,588,868 with victories of 139 and had 981 mounts.
Chantal Sutherland	In March 2011 Sutherland rode Game On Dude in the Santa Anita Handicap and won by a nose in a victory that was as controversial as it was historic.
Sam Waley-Cohen	In 2011, Sam Waley-Cohen also won the Cheltenham Gold Cup chase on his father's horse Long Run.
Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	He also achieved another dream by winning the Kentucky Derby with War Emblem in May 2002, making him the first Arab horse owner to win this race.
Arthur B. Hancock III	He and Peters also teamed up to breed Risen Star, winner of the 1988 Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
Braulio Baeza	Baeza was the jockey aboard Foolish Pleasure in the tragic 1975 match race against the great 3-year-old filly Ruffian, who had to be euthanized after she pulled up during the race with a broken front ankle.
William B. Finnegan	Thirteen years late, Finnegan would have the betting favorite going into the 1964 U. S. Triple Crown series with George A. Pope, Jr.'s colt, Hill Rise.
Pete D. Anderson	Pete Anderson won a number of major Graded stakes race s including a victory in the 1966 Washington Park Handicap aboard Bold Bidder in which he defeated the future Hall of Fame inductee, Tom Rolfe.
Bill Williamson	We joined forces to win the Irish Sweeps Derby in 1972 on Steel Pulse, for Indian shipping magnate, Ravi Tikkoo, for whom Williamson became racing manager after he retired (in association with Scobie Breasley as trainer).
Tom Walls	He set up stables at his home in Surrey and trained about 150 winners, including April the Fifth, his 1932 Derby winner.
Zara Phillips	Philips finished 2nd at Luhmühlen Horse Trials 2013, on her top horse High Kingdom.
Lester Piggott	Piggott began racing horses from his father's stable when he was 10 years old and won his first race in 1948, aged 12 years, on a horse called The Chase at Haydock Park.
D. Wayne Lukas	He began training quarter horses in California in 1968 and after ten years of considerable achievement that saw him train 24 world champions, he switched to training thoroughbred race horses.
Damien Oliver	His first winner as an apprentice was in March 1988 on Mr. Gudbud, at Bunbury, Western Australia and his first feature race win was the AJC Warwick Stakes.
Matt Winn	In 1915, he convinced the multimillionaire sportsman Harry Payne Whitney to ship his highly rated filly Regret from New Jersey to Louisville to compete in the Derby.
Basil James	Once he served his suspension, James continued winning and in 1939 was the United States Champion Jockey by earnings.
John B. LeBlanc	An inductee in both the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and U. S. Racing Hall of Fame, the filly won all twelve of her starts under LeBlanc en route to be voted the 1972 Eclipse Award as American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, the National Turf Writers Association's U. S. Horse of the Year and the Sovereign Award as the Canadian Horse of the Year.
Earl Sande	In 1938 he was the United States leading trainer and by the mid-1940s owned and operated his own racing stable.
David Smiley	He rode behind The Queen in the Gold State Coach in the Coronation Procession on 2 June 1953.
Jeremy Rose	He began his career as a professional rider at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Delaware and in 2001 was his breakout year and he was voted the United States' Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey.
Martin Garcia (jockey)	On July 31, 2011, Garcia rallied from last on the Bob Baffert - trainee Coil to win the 44th Haskell Invitational Handicap at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey.
Ralph Neves	Born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Neves won 3,772 races, including 173 stakes, and was elected to the Racing Hall of Fame in 1960.
Vincent O'Brien	For another American, Alice du Pont Mills, he trained the filly Glad Rags who in 1966 gave him his only win in the 1,000 Guineas Stakes.
Joe Mercer (jockey)	What was not known was that the stable owners, Sir Michael Sobell and Lord Arnold Weinstock, had informed Mercer that 1976 was to be his last as stable jockey and that he was to be replaced by Willie Carson.
Joe Mercer (jockey)	Mercer had only 64 winning rides, but 1981 was not a complete write-off for Mercer.
Mark Guidry	Guidry earned his 5,000 th career win at Churchill Downs on May 4, 2007, before retiring for the first time later that year.
Rafael Bejarano	Having met with success, including winning the apprentice riding title at Hipódromo de Monterrico in Lima, he emigrated to the United States in the spring of 2002 and settled in Louisville, Kentucky.
A. Kingsley Macomber	Of his six Kentucky Derby runners, Star Hawk had the best result when he ran second in 1916.
Felix L. Ortiz	He rode multiple Grade 1 winner Awad in 1996 in the Caesars International at Atlantic City Race Course which is currently the United Nations Stakes at Monmouth Park.
Geoff Wragg	He is the son of former jockey and trainer Harry Wragg, from whom he took over the licence at Abington Place, Newmarket in 1983 upon his father's retirement.
Paul Nicholls (horse racing)	Nicholls' finest hour came in the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup where he saddled the first three horses home : in finishing order, Denman (ridden by Sam Thomas), Kauto Star and Neptune Collonges.
Gordon Richards	Not until 2002 was his record number of victories in a season exceeded, by jump jockey Tony McCoy.
Claude R. McGaughey III	McGaughey began working as a trainer in 1979 and to date has won more than 240 graded stakes race s.
Corey Nakatani	On October 8, 2011, he won 6 races in one day including two grade one victories.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II	He then returned to racing, bringing his greatest champion, Native Dancer, to the track in 1952.
William R. Hawn	In the 1960s Hawn had notable success racing in the United States with the filly Blue Norther (b. 1961).
Charles E. Fipke	His horse Golden Soul, which was a longshot in the 2013 Kentucky Derby, finished second and had a payout more than three times higher than the winner Orb (38.
William Kissam Vanderbilt II	However, a French Panhard vehicle won the race and fans would have to wait until 1908 when 23-year-old George Robertson of Garden City, New York became the first American to win the Vanderbilt Cup.
Pete D. Anderson	In his only appearance in the Preakness Stakes, Anderson rode Primate to a fourth place finish in the 1952 race.
Casey Viator	In 1982 he capped off his bodybuilding career by placing third in the Mr. Olympia competition.
George Moore (jockey)	He retired from riding in 1971 having won 312 metropolitan stakes and a record 119 Group One races.
Jorge F. Chavez	In 2001, Chavez rode Monarchos to victory in the Florida Derby and then in America's most prestigious race, the Kentucky Derby.
John Benjamin Pryor	Luke began his own training career in 1872 under the employment of avid sportsman August Belmont, namesake of the Belmont Stakes in the U. S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
Max Hirsch	In 1950, Hirsch won his third Kentucky Derby with another son of Bold Venture, Middleground who also won the Belmont Stakes.
Russell Baze	On August 14, 2010, in the fourth race at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California, Baze rode Separate Forest, a first-time starter, to his 11,000 th win.
Rosie Napravnik	She began 2011 with a win in the Louisiana Derby, riding Pants on Fire.
Gilles Villeneuve	He could demand appearance money as well as race money, especially after winning the 1974 World Championship Snowmobile Derby.
Rosie Napravnik	Her fifth-place finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and third in the 2013 Preakness Stakes on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman jockey in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have ridden in all three Triple Crown races.
Ian Balding	In 1986 Forest Flower, a three-year-old filly owned by Mellon, trained by Balding and ridden by Tony Ives completed the 6 furlong s (1,207 m) Cherry Hinton Stakes at the Newmarket Racecourse in 1:12.
Frances A. Genter	Beyond her racing success with Unbridled, over the years Mrs. Genter won numerous top races in the United States including the 1986 Breeder's Cup Sprint with the colt, Smile.
Chic Anderson	The following year, in 1960, Anderson also became the public-address voice of Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby.
George Moore (jockey)	In 1988, he rode the filly Ravinella to victory in the British Classic, the 1,000 Guineas, plus the French Poule d'Essai des Pouliches.
Colm O'Donoghue	In June 2011 he won the Irish Derby at the Curragh Racecourse on the Aidan O'Brien trained Treasure Beach.
Roger Laurin	By 1966, Roger Laurin was training for major owners such as Harry Guggenheim's Cain Hoy Stable and then for Penny Chenery's Meadow Stable.
Michael Stoute	Stoute also trained Shergar, arguably his most famous horse, who won the 1981 Epsom Derby and was later stolen, presumably by the IRA.
Alfred M. Robertson	The winner of a number of important races at tracks across the United States, Robertson had seven mounts in the Kentucky Derby with his best finish a third in 1937.
Samuel McLaughlin	A three-time winner of Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate, in 1934 his future Hall of Fame colt Horometer won both the Queen's Plate and the Breeders' Stakes.
Mark Guidry	In the 2007 Kentucky Derby, Guidry rode 50-1 longshot Imawildandcrazyguy to a fourth-place finish.
William Lawrence Scott	Scott's horse Chaos won the Futurity Stakes in 1889.
Alex Scott (racehorse trainer)	His most notable horses were the future Epsom Derby winner Lammtarra and the 1991 Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Sheikh Albadou.
John L. Lively	Among his other racing accomplishments, on November 19, 1970 Lively rode five winners on a single racecard at Sportsman's Park Racetrack near Chicago.
Bill Williamson	His first winner came at Epsom in 1937 on a horse called Lilirene, the last winner Bobby Lewis rode to victory ironically.
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby	Among his stables' important wins were : Amidst great fanfare that included making the cover of TIME, in 1930 the 17th Earl visited Louisville, Kentucky with Joseph E. Widener where he was the honoured guest of Churchill Downs president Col. Matt Winn at the 56th running of the Kentucky Derby.
Pat Eddery	In July 2005 Eddery was granted a training license and he has set up his stable of 40 horses at Musk Hill Stud in Nether Winchendon, near Aylesbury.
Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.	The colt would earn Champion Two-Year-Old honors for his undefeated 1969 racing campaign.
Peter Bromley	He finally retired after Galileo's Epsom Derby victory on 9 June 2001, 40 years after his first Derby commentary on Psidium's shock 66-1 win.
Eugene Melnyk	In 1998, his colt Archers Bay won Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate.
Tim Vigors	In 1950 he was instrumental in the Irish horse Nasrullah, standing at stud in America at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky.
Joseph Talamo	He was the second leading jockey in wins during the Hollywood Park Racetrack 2007 Spring/Summer meet.
Michael Walker (jockey)	Still only 20 when he became a fully fledged jockey in April 2004, Walker celebrated the next day by riding five winners at the Woodville-Pahiatua Racing Club's meeting in southern Hawke's Bay.
Robert C. Landry	In addition to numerous Graded stakes race wins, in 1998 Robert Landry won two of the three Canadian Classics.
Vere Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland	He also owned and trained race horses, having a particularly successful season in 1923 when he trained 23 winners.
Arthur B. Hancock III	Hancock also co-bred the 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney	The Grade 1 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga Race Course was inaugurated in his family's honor in 1928.
Jos? A. Santos	He won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Funny Cide but missed winning the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing after finishing third in the Belmont Stakes.
Leslie Graham	In 1929 he entered a race on the Park Hall Oswestry circuit, riding a second hand Dot - JAP, and came second to Henry Pinnington on an AJS.
Nicole Uphoff	This was a record number of wins until 2010, when Werth won for an eighth time, and Uphoff remains the only rider to have won seven masters titles on a single horse (Werth rode three different horses to her eight victories).