Frankel, Bailey Elected to Hall of Fame

In their first year on the ballot, trainer Bobby Frankel and jockey Jerry Bailey have been elected to the Racing Hall of Fame, along with the horses Foolish Pleasure, La Prevoyante and Crusader.

Trainers are eligible after 25 years of work and jockeys after 15. Frankel, 53, is a Brooklyn-born horseman whose career began in New York and California, where he ran sharp claiming stables.

In 1993, his barn earned $8.6 million in purses as he won an Eclipse Award and dislodged Wayne Lukas, who had won the national money title for 10 consecutive years. Frankel’s supply of horses took on a new dimension a few years ago when he became the principal United States trainer for Saudi Arabian Khalid Abdullah. Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, led by Frankel, won the Eclipse Award in 1992 for top owner in North America.

Bailey, 37, has won about 3,400 races and his mounts have earned more than $100 million.

Foolish Pleasure, winner of the 1975 Kentucky Derby for owner John Greer and trainer LeRoy Jolley, won 16 of 26 starts and earned $1.2 million.

La Prevoyante was a horse of the year in Canada and an Eclipse Award winner as a 2-year-old. Crusader, who raced in the 1920s, was elected for the old-timers’ category. A son of Man o’ War, he won the Belmont Stakes, the Jockey Club Gold Cup and two consecutive Suburban Handicaps.

Induction ceremonies will be held on Aug. 7 at the Racing Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.