As a trainer:Gallant Fox Handicap (1978) American Classic Race wins:Kentucky Derby (1950) Belmont Stakes (1950, 1966)William Norris Boland (born July 16, 1933) is an American retired Hall of Fame jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing.

While still a sixteen-year-old apprentice, riding Better Self for owner Robert J. Kleberg Jr.'s King Ranch and trainer Max Hirsch, Boland earned the first stakes race win of his career on April 29, 1950 in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica Race Course.

[5] In 1966 Boland won his second Belmont Stakes aboard Amberoid for trainer Lucien Laurin.

[6] Widely respected by his peers, in 1959 Bill Boland received the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award given to the North American jockey who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.

[7] Bill Boland retired from racing in 1969 and turned to training horses for a time.