"Asteroid with trainer Ansel Williamson, jockey Brown Dick, circa 1864, Edward Troye, from Lacer p210."

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"Asteroid with trainer Ansel Williamson, jockey Brown Dick, circa 1864, Edward Troye, from Lacer p210."

In this painting by Edward Troye, completed in 1864, Williamson is shown with Woodburn Farm's Asteroid. Williamson, Asteroid's trainer, is shown on the right, with Edward Brown, his jockey, kneeling beside an unnamed handler.

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By The Tour the Historic Bluegrass team
Ansel Williamson was sold to A. Keene Richards of Kentucky after working as an enslaved trainer in Alabama. He was later sold to the owner of Woodburn farm, Robert A. Alexander. After emancipation he was employed as a trainer to H. Price McGrath,…