Horace A. "Jimmy" Jones (November 24, 1906 – September 2, 2001) was an American thoroughbred horse trainer. November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed in 18th century England when English mares were bred with imported Arabian stallions to create a distance racer. ... In horse racing, a trainer is responsible for preparing a horse for races. ...

The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri. Raised around horses from infancy, he learned the art of training from his father while working with him at Woolford Farm in Prairie Village, Kansas from 1931 to 1939 after which his father signed on as the head trainer at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. There, Jimmy Jones worked as his father's assistant but his career was interrupted when he joined the United States military during World War II. At war's end he returned to training horses and in 1948 took over the head trainer duties from his father who was appointed Calumet Farm's General Manager. Ben Jones Benjamin Allyn Jones (December 31, 1882 – June 13, 1961) was a thoroughbred horse trainer. ... Parnell is a city located in Nodaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 197. ... Prairie Village is a city located in Johnson County, Kansas. ... Lexington, Kentucky is the Horse Capital of the World, located in the heart of the Bluegrass. ... The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

In 1948, Jimmy Jones stepped aside as the trainer of record for Citation to allow his father to be officially designated as the trainer for the Kentucky Derby. Ben Jones wanted the opportunity to equal the record of Henry J. "Derby Dick" Thompson, who had trained four Derby winners. "Citation" won the race but it did not matter as Ben Jones later returned to training and won the Derby two more times. Jimmy Jones was named "Citation's" trainer for the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes and the horse became the Jones family's second U.S. Triple Crown winner. In 1957, Jimmy Jones won his first "official" Kentucky Derby with "Iron Liege" and claimed victory again the next year with future Hall of Fame colt "Tim Tam" who also won the Preakness. Many fans and race experts believe "Tim Tam" would certainly have won the Triple Crown had he not broken a sesamoid bone in his right foreleg coming down the homestretch in the Belmont stakes that resulted in the horse finishing in second place. Citation (April 11, 1945 - August 8, 1970) was a thoroughbred American horse-racing champion. ... The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... The Preakness Stakes is a classic 1 3/16 mile (1. ... The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious horse race held yearly on the first Saturday of June, at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. ... The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ... In anatomy, a sesamoid bone is a bone embedded within a tendon. ...

As head trainer for Calumet Farm, Jimmy Jones trained seven champion horses and won 54 stakes races. In addition to his two Derby wins, he won four Preakness Stakes and one Belmont Stakes. He was the leading trainer in the United States five times (1947, 1948, 1949, 1957, 1961) and was the first trainer to earn more than $1 million in purses in a single season. In 1959 he followed his father as an inductee into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He retired from training in 1964 to take over as the Director of Racing at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ... Monmouth Park Racetrack is a one-mile oval track for thoroughbred racing in Oceanport, New Jersey. ... Oceanport is a borough located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ...

Jones spent his final years in full retirement in his native Missouri where he passed away at the age of ninety-four at a hospital in Maryville. Maryville is a city located in Nodaway County, Missouri. ...