Arlington-Washington Futurity (1981) Martha Washington Stakes (1979)Breeders' Futurity Stakes (1980, 1982)Apple Blossom Handicap (1980)Arlington Classic (1981)Rebel Stakes (1981)Washington Park Handicap (1987)Oklahoma Derby (1990) John L. Lively (born June 18, 1943 in Summers, Arkansas) is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won 3,468 career races, including the 1976 Preakness Stakes, as well as ten riding titles at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha, Nebraska plus two at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas and another at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Lively guided the colt to a third-place finish in the Kentucky Derby then two weeks later he and Elocutionist defeated both the Derby winner Bold Forbes and the 1975 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Honest Pleasure to win the second leg of the Triple Crown series, the Preakness Stakes.
[7] In 2011, Lively was inducted into the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame at Remington Park.
[8] Among his other racing accomplishments, on November 19, 1970 Lively rode five winners on a single racecard at Sportsman's Park Racetrack near Chicago.
[9] He retired from race riding after the 1991 meeting at Oaklawn Park to live on his farm near his hometown of Westville, Oklahoma.