Andrew Beyer

male
Harvard University, Beyer Speed Figure, horse race, form, sportswriter, HorseracingintheUnitedStates
Andrew Beyer is an American expert on horse race betting who designed what has become known as the Beyer Speed Figure. In the early 1970s, while...
John Morrison Clay

John Morrison Clay

male, deceased (1887)
Survivor, victory, ashland, battle of little big horn, HorseracingintheUnitedStates, thoroughbred
John Morrison Clay was a Kentucky thoroughbred breeder, a son of statesman Henry Clay, and a husband of Josephine Russell Clay and the brother of...

Josephine Russell Clay

female, deceased (1920)
horse, HorseracingintheUnitedStates, thoroughbred, Josephine Russell Erwin Clay, Josephine Deborah Russell, Horse breeding and studs
Josephine Russell Erwin Clay (December 7, 1835-March 29, 1920) was one of the first significant woman thoroughbred horse breeders in America and a...
Joe Hirsch

Joe Hirsch

male, 80 years old
New York University, graded stakes race, Breeders' Cup, Earl of Derby, Daily Racing Form, Belmont Park…The Jockey Club Medal, HorseracingintheUnitedStates, United States Army, the jockey club
Joe Hirsch (born 1929) is an American horse racing columnist and the founding president of the National Turf Writers Association. He earned a...
Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Bellocq

male, 83 years old
French, French American, Maisons-Laffitte, Washington, D.C., International, Charente-Maritime, Jimmy Winkfield…naturalized citizen of the United States, HorseracingintheUnitedStates
Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse...
Whitney Tower

Whitney Tower

male, deceased (1999)
Harvard University alumni, oil, Magazine editor, Whitney family, horse racing, American…HorseracingintheUnitedStates
Whitney Tower (June 30, 1923 - February 11, 1999) was an American journalist reporting on Thoroughbred horse racing and a president of the National...

Phil Georgeff

male
American horseracing announcer, writer, Arlington Million, Hawthorne Race Course, Citation In a Class by Himself, "Here they come, spinning out of the turn!"…HorseracingintheUnitedStates
Phil Georgeff is the now-retired and legendary racetrack announcer in the Chicago, Illinois, area at venues including Arlington Park and Hawthorne...

Joe Kelly

male
trumpeter, Trumpet player, jazz, horse racing, American, HorseracingintheUnitedStates
Known by Chicagoans as the "Must Not Miss" Jazz band to see for anyone visiting Chicago during the 1970s, Joe Kelly frequently played to a full...

Steve Haskin

male, 62 years old
from New York, Baffert Dirt Road to the Derby, John Henry, Dr. Fager, Thoroughbred horse race, HorseracingintheUnitedStates…The Blood-Horse
Steve Haskin (born 1947 in New York) is an award-winning American horse racing journalist and author. A former Wall Street employee, Haskin was...
Herbert M. Woolf

Herbert M. Woolf

male
Jewish, Alfred Woolf, Lawrin, Woolford Farm, Racehorse owners and breeder, HorseracingintheUnitedStates
Herbert M. Woolf (11 October, 1880 - 22 September, 1964) was an American Jewish businessman and race horse owner. He was the president of Woolf...