1. Charles Howard, owner 2. Tom Smith, trainer 3. Red Pollard, jockey 4. Agnes Conlon, Red Pollard's wife 5. George Woolf, jockey 6. James "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, trainer

Agnes Conlon
Transcript: Agnes was kind of a funny match for Red. He was kind of everything she wasn't. He was such an extravagant soul. He felt everything so strongly. She was a very reserved woman, a very controlled woman; aristocratic. Here was this guy with an eighth-grade formal education, a jockey; he had no home when she married him. He was crippled, he was down to 86 pounds because he had been in the hospital for close to a year. She arrived out in California and discovered her husband was an alcoholic -- discovered he was treating all of his pain with alcohol. She was in deep, but she really loved this man and they were a good match in an odd way. I think she kind of answered for something, he kind of answered for something that she was lacking. And she provided him with a little bit of the civilized life. She took care of him. He needed someone to take care of her. And I think they were a good match.

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