Bobby Ussery

Bobby Ussery

Horseracing personalities infobox


name = Bobby Ussery
|caption =
occupation = Jockey
birthplace = Oklahoma, United States
birth date = 1935
death date =
career wins = 3,611
race = Canadian International Stakes (1955)
Manhattan Handicap (1957, 1967)
Sport Page Handicap (1957)
Whitney Handicap (1957)
Alabama Stakes (1958)
Cowdin Stakes (1958)
Travers Stakes (1958)
Jamaica Handicap (1959)
Toboggan Handicap (1959)
Flamingo Stakes (1960)
Florida Derby (1960)
Hopeful Stakes (1960)
Tremont Stakes (1960, 1961)
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1961)
Gotham Stakes (1961, 1965)
Fall Highweight Handicap (1961)
Mother Goose Stakes (1961)
Coaching Club American Oaks (1962)
Matron Stakes (1962, 1964)
Lawrence Realization Stakes (1963)
Brooklyn Handicap (1963, 1971)
Withers Stakes (1964, 1965)
Edgemere Handicap (1965)
Stuyvesant Handicap (1965)
Wood Memorial Stakes (1965, 1968)
Morris Handicap (1966)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1966)
Stymie Handicap (1966)
Carter Handicap (1969, 1970)
Comely Stakes (1970)

Canadian Classic Race wins:
Queen's Plate (1959)

American Classic Race wins:
Preakness Stakes (1960)
Kentucky Derby (1967, 1968)
awards =
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (1980)
horses = New Providence, Hail To Reason, Bally Ache
Proud Clarion, Dancer's Image
updated = CURRENTTIME, CURRENTDAYNAME CURRENTMONTHNAME CURRENTDAY CURRENTYEAR (UTC)

Robert N. "Bobby" Ussery (born 1935 in Vian, Oklahoma) is an American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He began his career as a jockey in 1951 and by the end of the decade had won the Travers Stakes, Whitney Stakes and Alabama Stakes. Riding Windfields Farm's colt New Providence, in 1959 he won Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate.

Ussery's best finish in the Belmont Stakes was in 1959 aboard the colt, Bagdad. In 1960 he won the Hopeful Stakes aboard that year's Eclipse Award 2-year-old champion, Hail To Reason. That same year he rode Bally Ache to victory in the Florida Derby and the Flamingo Stakes en route to a second place finish in the Kentucky Derby and then a win in the Preakness Stakes. In 1967 Ussery won the Kentucky Derby on Proud Clarion and won it again in 1968 aboard Dancer's Image. However, after phenylbutazone, a substance banned in Kentucky at that time but later sanctioned after it was proven not to affect a horse's performance, was found in Dancer's Image's post-race urine test, Dancer's Image was listed as having finished last.

Bobby Ussery retired in 1974 having won 3,611 races. In 1980, he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

References

* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/jockey.asp?ID=230 Robert N. Ussery at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]


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