birth_place race birth_date horses honours article_title name occupation
vian , oklahoma , united states canadian 1955 1961 -rrb- coaching club american oaks -lrb- 1962 -rrb- matron -rrb- stakes -lrb- 1962 , 1964 -rrb- lawrence realization stakes -lrb- manhattan 1963 -rrb- brooklyn handicap -lrb- 1963 , 1971 -rrb- withers handicap stakes -lrb- 1964 , 1965 -rrb- edgemere handicap -lrb- 1965 -lrb- -rrb- stuyvesant handicap -lrb- 1965 -rrb- wood memorial stakes -lrb- 1957 1965 , 1968 -rrb- morris handicap -lrb- 1966 -rrb- saratoga , special stakes -lrb- 1966 -rrb- stymie handicap -lrb- 1966 -rrb- 1967 carter handicap -lrb- 1969 , 1970 -rrb- comely stakes -lrb- -rrb- 1970 -rrb- sport international page handicap -lrb- 1957 -rrb- whitney handicap -lrb- 1957 -rrb- stakes alabama stakes -lrb- 1958 -rrb- cowdin stakes -lrb- 1958 -rrb- -lrb- travers stakes -lrb- 1958 -rrb- jamaica handicap -lrb- 1959 -rrb- 1955 toboggan handicap -lrb- 1959 -rrb- flamingo stakes -lrb- 1960 -rrb- -rrb- florida derby -lrb- 1960 -rrb- hopeful stakes -lrb- 1960 -rrb- narragansett tremont stakes -lrb- 1960 , 1961 -rrb- black-eyed susan stakes special -lrb- 1961 -rrb- gotham stakes -lrb- 1961 , 1965 -rrb- -lrb- fall highweight handicap -lrb- 1961 -rrb- mother goose stakes -lrb- 1935 new proud clarion , dancer 's image providence , hail to reason , bally ache united oklahoma horse racing hall of fame -lrb- 2011 -rrb- states racing hall of fame -lrb- 1980 -rrb- bobby ussery
 bobby ussery jockey
bobby ussery

robert nelson `` bobby '' ussery -lrb- born 1935 in vian , oklahoma -rrb- is a retired american thoroughbred horse racing hall of fame jockey .
his first race as a professional jockey came at fair grounds race course in new orleans on november 22 , 1951 , where he rode reticule to victory in the thanksgiving handicap .
by the end of the decade , he had won the travers , whitney and alabama stakes .
riding windfields farm 's colt new providence , in 1959 he won canada 's most prestigious race , the queen 's plate .
the horse went on to win the canadian triple crown , although avelino gomez took the mount for the final two legs .
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 finished first in 1968 aboard dancer 's image .
however , 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 disqualified and listed as having finished last .
ussery was so noted for driving horses to the lead and opening them up on the far turn at aqueduct race track that it was soon dubbed `` ussery 's alley '' .
ussery retired in 1974 with 3,611 race wins .
in 1980 , he was inducted into the national museum of racing and hall of fame .
in 2011 , he was inducted into the oklahoma horse racing hall of fame .
