Bobby Ussery

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Robert N. "Bobby" Ussery (born 1935 in Oklahoma) is a 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.

In 1960 Bobby Ussery 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 enroute 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 was found in Dancer's Image's post-race urine test he was set back to 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.