Jockey Alex Solis, trainer Gary Jones and champions Ashado and Curlin will be inducted into the US Racing Hall Of Fame in 2014 in the contemporary category.
The four will be inducted on August 8 at a ceremony in the the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion at Saratoga Springs in New York.
Panamanian-born Solis, 50, who is within 14 wins of 5000 career victories, ranks 10th on the all time list of purse earnings with $234,994,221 and 29th in total wins through April 24.
In a career that began in 1982, Solis, has won 321 graded stakes and 634 stakes races.
He has won three Breeders' Cup races, including the 2003 BC Classic with Pleasantly Perfect, the 1986 Preakness Stakes as well as seven other graded stakes with champion Snow Chief, and 18 riding titles on the Southern California circuit.
Gary Jones won 1465 races and had purse earnings of $52,672,611 in a training career that ran from 1975 to 1996.
He won 102 graded stakes and 223 stakes overall with 104 individual stakes winners including Turkoman, the 1986 champion older male.
In the 1990s, he conditioned Hall of Famer Best Pal to wins in the Santa Anita Handicap, Oaklawn Handicap, Hollywood Gold Cup and Charles H. Strub. Jones also trained Kostroma to a world turf record of 1:43.92 in the 1 1/8-mile Las Palmas Handicap in 1991.
Ashado (Saint Ballado x Goulash, by Mari's Book) won 12 of her 21 career starts and $3,931,440. She was named champion 3-year-old filly of 2004 and champion older female of 2005.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Ashado’s G1 and G2 wins included won the Spinaway, Schuylerville, Demoiselle, Kentucky Oaks, Breeders' Cup Distaff, Coaching Club American Oaks, Fair Grounds Oaks, Cotillion Handicap, the Go for Wand Handicap, Ogden Phipps Handicap, and Beldame.
Curlin (Smart Strike x Sherriff's Deputy, by Deputy Minister) won 11 of 16 career starts and has the highest purse earnings in North American history at $10,501,800, surpassing the previous mark set by Cigar.
Trained for the majority of his career by Steve Asmussen, Curlin won the Breeders' Cup Classic, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Preakness, Arkansas Derby and Rebel Stakes at 3 in 2007 to be named Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male.
At 4, he was again Horse of the Year and added champion older male honors when he won the Dubai World Cup), Stephen Foster, Woodward and his second Jockey Club Gold Cup.
Overall, he won seven Grade/Group I events.
The contemporary electees were chosen from a nationwide voting panel comprised of 185 racing writers, broadcasters, industry officials and historians from a group of nine finalists selected by the Hall of Fame's nominating committee.
Results of the Hall of Fame's Historic Review process, which examines candidates who have not been active within the past 25 years, will be announced in May.
Results of the Pillars of the Turf election process, which honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to thoroughbred racing in a leadership or pioneering capacity at the highest national level, will be announced in June.
