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American jockey
Bill Boland Occupation
Jockey /
Trainer Born (1933-07-16 ) July 16, 1933 (age 91)
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] He went on to the
Kentucky Oaks aboard Ari's Mona
[3] then the following day rode
Middleground to victory in the
Kentucky Derby .
[4] Boland missed winning the
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] In 1966 Boland won his second Belmont Stakes aboard
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.