LeRoy S. Jolley

Racing had a brand new darling named Genuine Risk. And for good reason. When the photogenic daughter of Exclusive Native charged down the h...

LeRoy Jolley once told People Magazine, in a story that ran during the 1970s, that "All I ever wanted to do was train horses. My dad was and stil...

LeRoy Jolley, the Hall of Fame trainer of Kentucky Derby winners Foolish Pleasure (1975) and Genuine Risk (1980), has died following an illness, the ...

Apparently, Hall of Fame trainer LeRoy Jolley is not the retiring type.“I got bored. I don’t play golf anymore and I don’t fish, so I went back to doi...

Trainer John Shirreffs, who is best known for his work with the legendary and beloved Zenyatta and familiar with the buzz generated by a great horse w...

 By all too many, Foolish Pleasure is only remembered as the ‘other horse’ on that fateful afternoon of July 6, 1975 that ultimately claimed the ...

It remains one of the most iconic images of the heat of battle in 20th century thoroughbred racing. The spectacular head-on view of the stretch duel b...

When people ask me what my favorite Kentucky Derby was, I always respond with the 1990 edition won by Unbridled. It was my most memorable for several ...

For a Hall of Fame trainer, Leroy Jolley couldn’t keep any lower profile on the Saratoga backstretch. With just two stalls in trainer Steve Margolis’ ...

In any non-athletic endeavor, the longer you work at a job the more knowledge you gather, the more skilled you become at your profession, and the more...