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Horse Racing Cards
4 Lots
 Lot 223. 1888 N162 Goodwin Champions Card of HoF Jockey Isaac Murphy SGC-Graded. SGC graded the card 30 Good 2. An African-American who competed from 1871 until his death in 1896, Murphy was one of the top jockeys in U.S. racing history. He was the first jockey inducted into the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame. In 1891, he became the first rider to win the Kentucky Derby three times. Since 1995, the National Turf Writers Association has presented the Isaac Murphy Award to the jockey with the highest winning percentage for the year in North America. Murphy won 44% of his races, a success rate that has never been equaled. This is an attractive card with bold colors from a very desirable issue, and it presents beautifully.
Winning Bid $75.
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 Lot 224. 1925 Boguslavsky “Winners of the Turf” Small-Card Set, Partial Large-Card Set. These sets, which have identical artwork, depict horses owned by the Aga Khan, a member of the Rothchild family and other leading figures of English horse racing. Each consists of 25 cards. The card fronts are from paintings by widely recognized British artist William Hounsom Byles. The set of smaller cards, which have titles in lettering without serifs, is complete. Nm-m: 4 cards. Nm+: 5. Nm: 2. Ex-m+: 7. Ex-m: 3. Ex+: 3. Ex: 1. Missing from the partial set of larger cards are #3, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 18. These sets “book” for more than $400. Ex-m: 3. Ex+: 1. Ex: 10. Vg-ex: 1. Vg: 3. G-vg: 1.
Winning Bid $125.
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 Lot 225. 4 1920s Horse Racing Partial Sets – 74 Different Cards. Three of the sets are from Ogden’s Cigarettes: “Derby Entrants” for 1926, 1928 and 1929. Alexander Bogulavsky produced the fourth group of cards, 1925 “Winners on the Turf.” All cards have descriptive backs. 1. “Derby Entrants, 1926”: 14 color cards with a portrait of the horse and the jockey’s silks on the front. Vg-ex to ex. 2. “Derby Entrants, 1928”: 25 color cards with the horse pictured on the front. Nm to nm+ 13, ex to ex-m 8, vg-ex 4. 3. “Derby Entrants, 1928”: 20 black & white cards with the horse or horse and jockey on the front. Ex-m 2, vg-ex to ex 14, g-vg 4. 4. “Winners on the Turf”: 15 cards vg-ex to ex, titles in type without serifs. These cards have a “book” value of almost $400.
Minimum Bid $100.
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