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Horace A. Jones

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As head trainer for Calumet Farm, Jimmy Jones trained seven champion horses and won 54 stakes races. In addition to his two Derby wins, he won four Preakness Stakes and one Belmont Stakes. He was the leading trainer in the United States five times (1947, 1948, 1949, 1957, 1961) and was the first
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trainer to earn more than $ 1 million in purses in a single season. In 1959, he followed his father as an inductee into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He retired from training in 1964 to take over as the Director of Racing at
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Jones spent his final years in full retirement in his native Missouri, where he spent the last few years of his life at St. Francis Hospital and Health Services in
529: 296:. After the war ended he returned to training horses, and in 1948 took over as head trainer from his father, who was appointed Calumet Farm's general manager. 354:. He bequeathed several million dollars to the hospital, where a new patient wing was erected with several pieces of memorabilia put on display in his memory. 261: 182: 539: 493: 519: 331:, who also won the Preakness. Many fans and race experts believe Tim Tam would have won the Triple Crown had he not broken a 272:. Raised around horses from infancy, he learned how to train them from his father while working with him at 340: 277: 289: 139: 480: 344: 195: 514: 509: 114: 288:. There, Jimmy worked as his father's assistant but his career was interrupted when he joined the 442: 423: 410: 397: 378: 351: 335:
in his right foreleg coming down the home stretch in the Belmont Stakes, where he finished second.
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Horace A. Jones at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
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from 1931 to 1939, after which his father signed on as the head trainer at
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winner. In 1957, Jimmy Jones won his first "official" Kentucky Derby with
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Masters of the Turf: Ten Trainers Who Dominated Horse Racing's Golden Age
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to allow his father to be officially designated as the trainer for the
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In 1948 Jimmy Jones stepped aside as the trainer of record for
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United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees
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Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones

Trainer
Parnell, Missouri
Arlington Handicap
Pimlico Special
Arlington Classic
Hollywood Gold Cup
Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Handicap
Jersey Derby
Florida Derby
Royal Palm Handicap
Travers Stakes
American Classic Race
Kentucky Derby
Preakness Stakes
Belmont Stakes
U.S. Champion Trainer by earnings
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Barbizon
Bewitch
Citation
Fabius
Faultless
Gen. Duke
Hill Gail
Iron Liege
Ponder
Real Delight

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