Born a slave in Virginia sometime around the middle part of the 19th century

Thoroughbred horse racing trainer

Best remembered for having trained Aristides, the winner of the inaugural Kentucky Derby in 1875. That same year, his horse Calvin won the Belmont Stakes. In addition, Williamson trained horses who won other major races such as the Travers Stakes, the Jerome Handicap, and the Withers Stakes.

In 1998 Ansel Williamson was inducted posthumously into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1212132

Born into bondage

Remembered as a trainers' trainer, someone who could gently coax wild stallions to trot and mares to waltz.

Known for inventing a more humane bit that's still used today

First African-American to perform in Madison Square Garden

First trainer to teach a horse to canter backwards

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/95105135

January 5, 1859 – November 4, 1934

American Saddlebred horse trainer

One of the most popular horse trainers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bass trained the influential Saddlebred stallion Rex McDonald, as well as horses owned by Buffalo Bill Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, and Will Rogers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bass_(horse_trainer)

In 2012, Hamilton was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame.
Many victories
Maintained a phenomenal 32.5 percent win rate throughout 1890 and 1891

https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2020-the-world-traveling-career-jockey-anthony-hamilton
1866-1904

1871-1908

Became a jockey when he was 14 years old

206 victories in 1888, a record number of wins by a jockey in the United States for one year

Inducted into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame in 2011

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2701

http://ohiocountykentuckyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/04/shelby-d-pike-barnes.html
 

First African-American jockey to win the Preakness Stakes

Went missing

Tennis great Arthur Ashe once wrote In The New York Times that once the Jockey Club was formed in the early 1890s and controlled the issuance and regulation of jockey licences blacks were denied there's. ‘By 1911,’ Ashe wrote, ‘they had all but disappeared’

https://blackmaleequestrians.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/george-b-anderson-jockey/

October 29, 1953 — September 20, 2019

First black female jockey

First female jockey to win two races in the same day in different states

First woman to win five races in one day

White earned the Appaloosa Horse Club’s Jockey of the Year in 1977, 1983, 1984 and 1985

Inducted into the Appaloosa Hall of Fame in 2011

https://theundefeated.com/features/cheryl-white-first-black-female-jockey-in-the-united-states/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_White_(jockey)

1856-1924

First jockey to win the Kentucky Derby

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/lewis-oliver-1856-1924/

1861-1896

First black jockey to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame

Three wins at the Kentucky Derby and four wins at Chicago’s American Derby, the most prestigious track in the late 1800s.

considered one of the all-time great jockeys in Thoroughbred racing

By his own calculation, Isaac Murphy won 44 percent of his races. More recent statisticians who have studied his races report that his percentage is more likely 34 percent—530 wins and 1538 rides. That’s still a very impressive record.

https://americacomesalive.com/2016/02/09/black-jockey-hall-of-famer-isaac-burns-murphy/

1870-1927

Raced in England where he became the first American jockey to win with an American horse in that country

Won the 1896 Kentucky Derby in its first time as a one and a quarter mile race.

The only African American jockey to win all of the Triple Crown races

In 1977 was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was national riding champion in 1893 and 1894.

https://aaregistry.org/story/willie-simms-winner-of-all-triple-crown-horse-races/

Born in Chilesburg, Ky. in 1880 and  passed away on March 23, 1974

One of just five men to win back-to-back Kentucky Derbys (1901-1902)

In 1919, Winkfield escaped the Bolshevik’s thundering cannon fire leading 250 top-tier Thoroughbreds, Polish noblemen, and horsemen on a harrowing 1,100-mile journey to a safe haven in Warsaw.

Inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame, its third African-American jockey

Every year, Aqueduct stages the six-furlong Jimmy Winkfield Stakes on the third Monday of January, Martin Luther King Day — a fitting tribute to the last black jockey to win the  Kentucky Derby

https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2020-the-epic-journey-james-wink-winkfield

1921-2005

America's first black woman Licensed To Train thoroughbred horses

https://bfequestrian.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/sylvia-bishop-horse-trainer/