Career
He had his best years in 1939 and 1940. Freddy Smith rode Bimelech to American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors in 1939, winning the Saratoga Special Stakes, the Hopeful Stakes and both the Belmont and Pimlico Futuritys. In Bimelech"s three-year-old season, Smith guided the colt to victory in the 1940 Blue Grass Stakes and Derby Trial Stakes but after bettors made them the overwhelming favorite, they finished second in the Kentucky Derby.
Smith was criticized for his riding and admitted he had made a tactical mistake that may have caused the loss.