An August 2020 Facebook post recycles the long-standing claim that Black lawn jockey statues are not a product of the country’s racist past, but a relic of the Underground Railroad, a system of ...

"Jockey Statues Marked Underground Railroad." 22 February 1998. Sherrod, Pamela. "The Secret Life of the Black Lawn Jockey." Chicago Tribune. 8 February 1998. The National ...

When 11-year-old Ah-Seve Mays McFarland unwittingly saw a caricature statue of a Black male jockey outside a Watervliet home, he told his mom, Shamara. The description left her angry.

He says jockey No. 4 will meet the same fate as the others. Rosemary Harris is a columnist for the Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colo., where this article first appeared. Pub Date: 10/12/97 ...

When Dan Czech was growing up, he remembers when the statues depicting jockeys in colorful silks came out on North Broadway lawns each year as the indicator that track season was approaching. Now, … ...

In 2002, Ballenger, who defended the statue as a family heirloom, ... bought the lawn jockey five years ago at a garden store off Indian Head Highway in Prince George’s County, Md.

A photograph that shows what the statue of the horse Native Dancer will look like is on display during a dedication ceremony for Centennial Park on Monday, June 1, 2015, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The statue honoring Isaac Murphy, who won three Kentucky Derbies in the late 1800s, has been missing from the corner of Midland and Third streets for months.

None of the statues were damaged. Video of Confederate flags behind hung on jockeys outside National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs. (Saratoga Springs Police Department) ...