Fledgling rider Leo “Pepper” Belouin of Schenectady, a 1952 graduate of Mont Pleasant High School, participated in exercise drills, cooled off horses and raked the shed row at Saratoga Race Track during the summer of 1954. Photos are by Gazette photographer Charles B. Sellers. Posted on August 18, 2008.
Fledgling rider Leo “Pepper” Belouin of Schenectady talks to Brandywine Stable trainer V.W. “Buddy” Raines in Saratoga Springs during the summer of 1954.
Pepper Belouin holds the reins during a training session at Saratoga’s practice track; apprentice jockey Bobby Stoval watches the new rider’s moves on horseback.