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Rachael Blackmore
Rachael Blackmore, Irish jump jockey from Killenaule, County Tipperary; first female winner of the Grand National (Minella Times, 2021), 2021 Cheltenham top jockey, 2022 Gold Cup winner; retired May 2025 with 575 winners.
Red Pollard
Red Pollard (John Pollard, 1909-1981), Canadian-born jockey and Seabiscuit's regular rider, 18 wins in 30 mounts including the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap; blind in one eye, Jockeys' Guild founder.
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, known as Reggie, was an American Vanderbilt family sportsman and leading horseman who inherited $10 million at 21 and was the father of Gloria Vanderbilt.
Robert J. Frankel
Robert J. (Bobby) Frankel (1941-2009) was a Hall of Fame American Thoroughbred trainer from Brooklyn; five-time Eclipse Award winner, 3,654 wins, $227.9 million earnings, 2003 record 25 Grade 1 wins; namesake of the unbeaten racehorse Frankel.
Robert Sangster
Robert Edmund Sangster (1936–2004), British racehorse owner-breeder and Vernons pools heir; with Vincent O'Brien and John Magnier built Coolmore, won the Derby with The Minstrel and Golden Fleece, and paid a record $13.1 million for Seattle Dancer.
Robyn Smith
Robyn Smith (Robyn Astaire), American jockey born 1942, first woman to win a stakes race (Paumanok Handicap, 1973); retired 1975; married Fred Astaire in 1980.
Ron Turcotte
Ron Turcotte (1941-2025), Canadian Hall of Fame jockey from Drummond, New Brunswick, rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, won 3,032 races, and was paralyzed in a 1978 Belmont Park fall.
Ruby Walsh
Ruby Walsh (Rupert Walsh, born 1979) is a retired Irish National Hunt jockey, son of Ted Walsh; 2,756 career winners, record 59 Cheltenham Festival winners, 12 Irish titles, two Grand Nationals, retired May 2019.
Ryan Moore (jockey)
Ryan Moore (born 1983, Brighton) is an English Flat jockey, three-time British champion (2006, 2008, 2009) and Aidan O'Brien's first-choice rider at Ballydoyle, with four Epsom Derby wins, five Breeders' Cup Turf titles, and four Longines World's Best Jockey awards.
Steve Cauthen
Steve Cauthen, American jockey from Covington, Kentucky; 1978 Triple Crown winner on Affirmed at 18; three-time British champion jockey; only rider to win both the Kentucky and Epsom Derbys; retired at 32 with 2,794 winners.
Tony McCoy
Tony McCoy (AP McCoy, born 1974, Moneyglass, County Antrim), Northern Irish jump jockey; 20 consecutive champion jockey titles from 1996, over 4,000 winners, 2010 Grand National on Don't Push It, first jockey to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year (2010), retired April 2015.
Victor Espinoza
Victor Espinoza, Mexican-born Hall of Fame jockey (born 1972, Tulancingo), rode American Pharoah to the 2015 Triple Crown, won three Kentucky Derbies and three Preaknesses, and has over 3,500 wins and $214 million in earnings.
William Kissam Vanderbilt
William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920), also William K. Vanderbilt I, American railroad manager, philanthropist, and racehorse breeder; son of William Henry Vanderbilt, husband of Alva Smith, later French breeder at Chateau Vanderbilt, Carrieres-sous-Poissy.
Willie Mullins
Willie Mullins (William Patrick Mullins, born 1956), Irish National Hunt trainer at Closutton, County Carlow; record 121 Cheltenham Festival winners, five Gold Cups, four Grand Nationals, Irish and British champion trainer.