pipingrock

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Thoroughbred Horse Racing, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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Piping Rock is in Locust Valley on Long Island. According the the date written on the photo, this photo was taken on 6/7/13. New York Times article from 6/8/13 describes this (very rainy) race meet: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C06E1D8143FE6...

Noel Zia Lee: Thanks for identifying the location of this race meet as Locust Valley, Long Island and for the date. We will add the information to our source data and reload the description.

Great find thanx for sharing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt,_Jr.

Lynne: thank you for finding additional information on Theodore Roosevelt Jr. We will include it in the record.

This appears to be taken at the same time and place as this photo of Roosevelt at the races at Piping Rock Country Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. which ran in the New York Sun on October 29, 1916. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1916-10-29/ed-...

The woman on the left is perhaps Mrs. William Halsted Vander Poel, the former Gretchen Billings, daughter of CKG Billings (chairman of Union Carbide). CKG Billings and Frederick Johnson (apparently the husbands of the other two women) together bought some English thoroughbred horses to raise for raising in 1915.

C. K. G. Billings and Fred Johnson were partners in the ownership of race horses, including "Omar Khayyam," winner of the 1917 Kentucky Derby. This photo appears to have been taken at the stepped observation boxes of the Piping Rock Country Club, in Locust Valley, Long Island, on July 10, 1913. Here is the same scene, same day, shifted to the right:

Another Bain/LOC photo of the same venue was posted to Flickr on April 27, 2011: