Uncle Sam and the black jockey are framed by the arms and bloodied face of a black man, hanging upside down.

"She can show you evidence of black athletes from the 1770's and images of black jockeys from the 1800's," Ettinger said.

Remember those grinning black jockeys that once decorated lawns and driveways?

He rattles off the fact that black jockeys won 15 of the first 28 Kentucky Derbys.

In the early years of the Kentucky Derby, black jockeys predominated, winning 15 of the first 28 runnings.

And 13 of the 15 horses in the inaugural Derby in 1875 were ridden by black jockeys.

Suddenly the black jockeys and trainers were gone.

In sports, the reaction to the dominance of black jockeys in the 1890's was not white jockeys' vowing to work and get better.

The saddest case is that of the black jockeys.

Most today are white jockeys, but historically black jockeys were commonplace.