Horace (Jimmy) Jones was born in 1906 and passed away in 2001. He was the son of Parnell trainer Ben Jones and was born there.
Jimmy Jones won seven different American Classic races, including the Kentucky Derby in 1957 and 1958, the Preakness in 1947, 1948, 1956, and 1958, and the Belmont in 1948.
Among other major racing wins, his horses won the Arlington Handicap in 1947, 1949, and 1950, the Pimlico Special in 1948, the Arlington Classic in 1949, the Hollywood Gold Cup in 1951 and 1952, the Santa Anita Handicap in 1953, the Jersey Derby in 1956 and 1957, the Florida Derby in 1957 and 1958, the Royal Palm Handicap in 1961, and the Travers Stakes in 1961. He won 54 stakes races total.
He was the leading trainer by earnings in 1947, 1948, 1949, 1957, and 1961. He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1959. He was the first trainer to win more than $1 million in a single season.
Among significant horses that he trained included Barbizon, Bewitch, Citation, Fabius, Faultless, Gen. Duke, Hill Gail, Iron Liege, Ponder, Real Delight, Tim Tam, and Two Lea.
In 1948, Jimmy stepped aside to allow his father, Ben Jones, to train Citation so that Ben could equal the record of Herbert “Derby Dick” Thompson, who had trained four Derby winners. Citation won the race and would go on to win the Triple Crown.
The closest Jimmy Jones came to training another Triple Crown winner was Tim Tam in 1958, when he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. But he broke a sesamoid bone in his foreleg during the Belmont Stakes and finished second.
(taken from Wikipedia)
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