Horace A. (Jimmy) Jones 2001 Deaths

Horace A. (Jimmy) Jones

thoroughbred trainer who saddled Citation to the final two legs of the 1948 Triple Crown and two additional Kentucky Derby winners; won 54 stakes races and trained seven champion horses during his career from 1926-64; country's leading trainer five times (1947-49, 1957, 1961); first trainer to surpass the $1 million mark in earnings; son of Hall of Famer Ben Jones; began working with his father at Woolford Farm until 1939 when they moved to Caulmet Farm; served as director of racing at Monmouth Park after retiring from Caulmet; inducted into National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame in 1959.