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Bill Boland Occupation Jockey / Trainer Born (1933-07-16 ) July 16, 1933 (age 90 ) Corpus Christi, Texas United States Career wins 2,049 Diana Handicap (1950)Fashion Stakes (1950)Gallant Fox Handicap (1950)Saratoga Handicap (1950)Kentucky Oaks (1950)San Luis Obispo Handicap (1950)Arlington Handicap (1952)Marguerite Stakes (1952)Massachusetts Handicap (1952, 1956)Hawthorne Gold Cup (1952, 1956, 1962)Belmont Futurity Stakes (1953)Empire City Gold Cup (1953)Jockey Club Gold Cup (1953)National Stallion Stakes (1953)Acorn Stakes (1954)Alabama Stakes (1955)Frizette Stakes (1955)Gardenia Stakes (1955)Malibu Stakes (1955, 1960)San Marcos Stakes (1955)San Felipe Stakes (1955, 1960)Metropolitan Handicap (1956)San Antonio Handicap (1956)San Miguel Stakes (1956)Spinaway Stakes (1956, 1958)Whitney Handicap (1956)Dwyer Handicap (1957)Narragansett Special (1957)San Bernardino Handicap (1958, 1959)San Pasqual Handicap (1958)Santa Anita Oaks (1958)Santa Maria Handicap (1958)Man o' War Handicap (1959, 1962)Santa Anita Handicap (1959)Santa Catalina Handicap (1958, 1959)Stymie Handicap (1960, 1967)Hempstead Handicap (1961)Suburban Handicap (1962)Black Helen Handicap (1963, 1967)Widener Handicap (1963)Royal Palm Handicap (1965)Wood Memorial Stakes (1966)Amory L. Haskell Handicap (1968)Woodbine Oaks (1968)
As a trainer: Gallant Fox Handicap (1978)
American Classic Race wins:Kentucky Derby (1950) Belmont Stakes (1950, 1966)
George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award (1959)National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (2006)Amberoid , Beau Purple , Better Self, Kissin' George , Middleground , Nasrina , Porterhouse , Terrang , Sword Dancer
William Norris "Bill" Boland (born July 16, 1933 at Corpus Christi, Texas ) is a retired American Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing .[1]
Boland began his riding career in 1949 at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York . While still a sixteen-year-old apprentice, riding Better Self for owner Robert J. Kleberg Jr.'s King Ranch and trainer Max Hirsch , Boland earned the first stakes race win of his career on April 29, 1950 in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica Race Course .[2] Kentucky Oaks aboard Ari's Mona [3] Middleground to victory in the Kentucky Derby .[4] U.S. Triple Crown series that year when he and Middleground finished second after a rough trip in the Preakness Stakes but then won the Belmont Stakes .[5] Amberoid for trainer Lucien Laurin .[6]
Widely respected by his peers, in 1959 Bill Boland received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award given to the North American jockey who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.[7]
Bill Boland retired from racing in 1969 and turned to training horses for a time. He was inducted into the United States Racing Hall of Fame in 2006.
References
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^ New York Times - June 17, 1956
^ Sarasota Herald-Tribune - May 7, 1950
^ The Wilmington, North Carolina Star-News - June 11, 1950
^ Miami News - June 5, 1966
^ The Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review - February 3, 1959
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