birth_place race birth_date horses honours article_title name occupation
hot springs , arkansas , united states arlington , stakes -lrb- 1991 -rrb- mother goose stakes -lrb- 1991 -rrb- 1976 -rrb- breeders ' futurity stakes -lrb- 1963 , classic 1981 -rrb- blue grass stakes -lrb- 1962 , 1976 , -lrb- 1977 -rrb- manhattan handicap -lrb- 1973 -rrb- frizette stakes -lrb- 1962 1975 , 1990 -rrb- matron stakes -lrb- 1975 , 1990 -rrb- , 1991 -rrb- wood memorial stakes -lrb- 1975 , 1987 florida -rrb- travers stakes -lrb- 1976 , 1979 -rrb- whitney handicap derby -lrb- 1977 , 1985 -rrb- woodward stakes -lrb- 1985 -rrb- -lrb- united nations stakes -lrb- 1986 , 1987 -rrb- arlington million 1962 -lrb- 1987 -rrb- turf classic stakes -lrb- 1987 -rrb- acorn 1937 foolish gulch , honest pleasure , manila , mogambo , meadow pleasure star , ridan , general assembly , genuine risk , national 1987 -rrb- museum of racing and hall of fame -lrb- leroy jolley
 leroy jolley trainer
leroy jolley

leroy s. jolley -lrb- born 1937 in hot springs , arkansas -rrb- is an united states hall of fame thoroughbred horse trainer .
the son of horse trainer moody jolley , leroy jolley has been around horses all his life at age nineteen received a new york state trainer 's license .
in 1961 , the 24-year-old leroy jolley was the trainer of the colt ridan who at age two went undefeated in seven races including wins in the arlington futurity and the washington park futurity .
owned by his family along with two other partners , at age three ridan gave leroy jolley victory in record time in the hibiscus stakes , plus the first of his three blue grass stakes wins .
he then earned the first of his two florida derbys while defeating the future hall of fame filly , cicada .
the heavy favorite going into the kentucky derby , ridan ran wide throughout the race and wound up third in a hard fought race where he and roman line finished a neck behind upset winner decidedly whom ridan had easily beaten in the blue grass stakes .
in that year 's travers stakes at the saratoga race course , ridan lost by a fraction of a nose to jaipur in one of the most dramatic races in american thoroughbred racing history and one that is still written and talked about today .
jolley went on to train two kentucky derby winners , first with foolish pleasure in 1975 then with genuine risk in 1980 .
he won numerous other important american graded stakes races including the 1986 breeders ' cup turf and the 1987 arlington million with manila plus the 1990 breeders ' cup juvenile fillies with meadow star .
in 1987 , leroy jolley was inducted into the national museum of racing and hall of fame .
