American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse
Honorees -- Daily Racing Form and Turf & Sport Digest Awards
Table:
Year

Horse

Trainer

Owner

1949

Capot

John M. Gaver, Sr.

Greentree Stable

1948

Citation

Ben A. Jones

Calumet Farm

1947

Phalanx

Sylvester Veitch

Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney

1946

Assault

Max Hirsch

King Ranch

1945

Fighting Step

Charles C. Norman

Murlogg Farm

1944

By Jimminy

James W. Smith

Alfred P. Parker

1943

Count Fleet

Don Cameron

Fannie Hertz

1942

Alsab

Sarge Swenke

Albert Sabath

1941

Whirlaway

Ben A. Jones

Calumet Farm

1940

Bimelech

William A. Hurley

Idle Hour Stock Farm

1939

Challedon

Louis J. Schaefer

Branncastle Farm

1938

Stagehand

Earl Sande

Col. Maxwell Howard

1937

War Admiral

George Conway

Glen Riddle Farm

1936

Granville

James E. Fitzsimmons

William Woodward, Sr.

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Capot ( 1946-1974 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse sired by Menow out of the mare Piquet . Owned and bred by Greentree Stable , Capot was trained by John M. Gaver , Sr .
John Milton Gaver Sr. ( October 29 , 1900 - July 11 , 1982 ) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer . Born in Mount Airy , Maryland , John Gaver graduated from Princeton University then worked as a prep school language teacher before eventually embarking on a career in Thoroughbred racing . In 1929 , James G. Rowe Jr. , a friend and horse trainer , invited him to join the team managing the Brookdale Farm and racing stable owned by Harry Payne Whitney . After Harry Payne Whitney died in 1930 , James Rowe Jr. took over the running of the Mrs. Payne Whitney family 's Greentree Stable and asked John Gaver to come with him . In 1939 , Gaver was appointed head trainer for Greentree Stable , a position he would hold for the next thirty-eight years . During his time with Greentree , John Gaver conditioned seventy-three stakes-winning horses , including winners of five American Classic Races . Four of his horses earned Champions honors with Capot and Tom Fool voted Horse of the Year in 1946 and 1953 respectively . In 1966 John Gaver was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame . In 1977 he suffered a stroke and his son John Jr. took over as trainer for the Greentree Stable . He retired to Aiken , South Carolina where he had maintained a winter training center for many years . He died there at Aiken Community Hospital in 1982 and was buried in the Lexington Cemetery , Lexington , Kentucky . Selected other major race wins :
Greentree Stable , in Red Bank , New Jersey , was a major American thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City . Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga Springs , New York with his brother Harry Payne Whitney , who also had a large stable of horses . Greentree Stable had a training base at Aiken , South Carolina , while Greentree Farm in Lexington , Kentucky was established in 1925 as its breeding arm .
Citation ( April 11 , 1945 - August 8 , 1970 ) was an American Triple Crown-winning Thoroughbred racehorse who won 16 consecutive races in major stakes race competition . He was the first horse in history to win one million dollars .
Benjamin Allyn Jones ( December 31 , 1882 - June 13 , 1961 ) was a thoroughbred horse trainer . Ben Jones was born in Parnell , Missouri , and attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington , Missouri for high school . Jones went into the business of breeding and training of thoroughbreds during the first decade of the 20th century , racing his horses on small circuits in the American West and in Mexico . By the end of the 1920s he was recognized as one of the better trainers in the industry . He gave up his operation to accept the job of trainer for Woolford Farm in Prairie Village , Kansas from 1931 to 1939 during which time he trained three champions including the 1938 Flamingo Stakes and Kentucky Derby winner , Lawrin . For the next season , Jones was hired by Warren Wright , Sr. to train for his Calumet Farm in Lexington , Kentucky and to take charge of its breeding operation . Under Ben Jones , Calumet became one of the greatest stables in thoroughbred racing history . He is the only trainer to win the Kentucky Derby six times , including victories by two U.S . Triple Crown winners , Whirlaway and Citation . In 1948 , Ben Jones was appointed general manager of Calumet Farm and his son , Horace A. Jimmy Jones , took over head trainer duties . Ben Jones made the cover of the May 30 , 1949 issue of Time magazine . He retired in 1953 and in 1958 was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame .
Calumet Farm is a 762-acre ( 3.08 km2 ) Thoroughbred breeding and training farm established in 1924 in Lexington , Kentucky , United States by William Monroe Wright , founding owner of the Calumet Baking Powder Company . Calumet is located in the heart of the Bluegrass , a well-known horse breeding region . Calumet Farm has a record history of Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown winners and throughout its history of over 87 years , it has produced some of the greatest Thoroughbred horses of all time .
Phalanx ( 1944-1971 ) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse . In 1947 , he won the Belmont Stakes and was voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse .
Sylvester E. Veitch ( February 24 , 1910 - February 14 , 1996 ) was a Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer . Veitch began his career in racing as a jockey and trainer in Steeplechase racing . In 1939 he moved to flat racing when he began employment as a trainer with Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney in Kentucky . He won two Belmont Stakes while in Whitney 's employment : one in 1947 with Phalanx and the second in 1951 with Counterpoint . In 1958 he left his position with C.V. Whitney and began employment with George D. Widener , Jr. where he trained What a Treat , and many other notable horses . In 1971 , after Mr. Widener 's death , Sylvester Veitch opened his own public stable . He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1977 . Among his accomplishments , Sylvester Veitch held the single-season mark of 24 wins in 24 days set in 1954 at Saratoga Race Course , a record that held until 2003 . In the course of his career he had forty-four stakes winners . He trained 5 champions in all : First Flight in 1946 , Phalanx in 1947 , Counterpoint in 1951 , Career Boy in 1956 , and What a Treat in 1965 . Mr. Veitch died at the age of 85 at the Winthrop Hospital in Mineola , Long Island , New York in February 1996 after a brief illness . His son , John M. Veitch , is also a successful trainer .
Cornelius Vanderbilt Sonny Whitney ( February 20 , 1899 - December 13 , 1992 ) was an American businessman , film producer , writer , philanthropist , polo player , and government official , as well as the owner of a stable of thoroughbred racehorses .
Assault ( March 26 , 1943 - September 2 , 1971 ) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who won the U.S . Triple Crown in 1946 .
Maximilian Justice Max Hirsch ( July 12 , 1880 - April 3 , 1969 ) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer . Born in Fredericksburg , Texas , and raised Roman Catholic , Hirsch became one of the most successful trainers in Thoroughbred horse racing history . He spent part of his formative years working as a groom and jockey at Morris Ranch in Gillespie County , Texas . Hirsch conditioned horses for various owners including George W. Loft , Arthur B. Hancock , the infamous Black Sox Scandal gambler Arnold Rothstein , Morton L. Schwartz , Jane Greer , and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt , but is best known for his work with the King Ranch Stable , which he joined in the 1930s and for whom he trained until his death in 1969 . Sarazen was the first Champion Max Hirsch trained and said his win over the French Champion Epinard in the third race of the 1924 International Specials was his greatest thrill in racing . A Hall of Fame inductee , Sarazen was the American Horse of the Year in 1924 and 1925 . Max Hirsch won the first of his four Belmont Stakes in 1928 with Vito . In 1936 , he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Bold Venture and in 1946 captured the U.S . Triple Crown with Bold Venture 's son Assault . In 1950 , Hirsch won his third Kentucky Derby with another son of Bold Venture , Middleground who also won the Belmont Stakes . Max Hirsch was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1959 . He died on April 3 , 1969 at the Jewish General Hospital on Long Island , New York and was buried next to his wife , Katherine Josephine Clare ( 1888-1941 ) , in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury , Long Island .
King Ranch , located in South Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville near Kingsville , is the largest ranch in Texas , an area larger than the state of Rhode Island . The King Ranch comprises 825,000 acres ( 3,340 km2 ; 1,289 sq mi ) and was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis . It includes portions of six Texas counties ; most of Kleberg County and much of Kenedy County , with portions extending into Brooks , Jim Wells , Nueces , and Willacy counties . The ranch does not consist of one single contiguous plot of land , but rather four large sections called divisions . The divisions are the Santa Gertrudis , the Laureles , the Encino and the Norias . Only the first two of the four divisions border each other , and that border is relatively short . The ranch was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 .
James W. Jimmy Smith ( born c. 1905 ) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer . He was the son of Tom Smith , trainer of Seabiscuit . James Smith trained for automotive industrialist Charles T. Fisher and won the 1940 Arlington Classic with Fisher 's colt , Sirocco . A few years later he trained for the renowned owner of Idle Hour Stock Farm , Edward R. Bradley , for whom he earlier rode as a jockey , riding and winning on such stars of the turf Black Helen at 2 and Blue Larkspur at 4 , among others . Along with his father , James Smith trained for Maine Chance Farm . On February 15 , 1949 , James W. Smith trained his last horse for Maine Chance Farm , winning the feature race at Florida 's Hialeah Park Race Track with Royal Blood . In 1946 he had three horses in the Kentucky Derby , the best finish a fourth place with Lord Boswell . James Smith 's last Derby entrant was in 1961 with Jay Fox . James trained Champions Busher , By Jimminy , Bridal Flower , Myrtle Charm . He also trained Champions But Why Not ( SW ) , Star Pilot ( SW ) , note link takes you to non thoroughbred related content and Beaugay ( multiple SW ) .
Count Fleet ( March 24 , 1940 - December 3 , 1973 ) was a champion American thoroughbred racehorse . In 1943 , he became the sixth American Triple Crown winner when he won the Belmont Stakes by a then record margin of twenty-five lengths . After an undefeated season , he was named the 1943 Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old . Also a champion at age two , he is ranked as one of the greatest American racehorses of the twentieth century . He was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1961 . Count Fleet started his two-year-old campaign with two losses and was originally known more for his erratic behavior than his looks or racing ability . But the colt gradually improved , eventually winning 10 of 15 starts at age two , four of them in stakes company . At distances of a mile and up , he was undefeated . In the Champagne Stakes , he set a world record for a two-year-old at a distance of a mile . He was named champion two-year-old and became the early favorite to win the Kentucky Derby . As a three-year-old , Count Fleet dominated North American racing , never losing a race . Leading up to the Kentucky Derby , he won the important Wood Memorial but injured himself in the process .
Gregory Duncan Don Cameron ( c. 1894 - July 11 , 1952 ) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer who trained Count Fleet , who won the U.S . Triple Crown in 1943 . A native of California , Don Cameron served as an aviator in the United States Military during World War I . Working in the Thoroughbred horse racing industry , he trained for various owners including the prominent stables of Vera S. Bragg and J. Shirley Riley . However , he is best known for his time with Stoner Creek Stud training the horses for its owners , John & Fannie Hertz . Beginning in September 1940 Don Cameron trained Challedon for owner William L. Brann and won the Pimlico Special and Havre de Grace Handicap . He left Brann 's employ in February 1941 and the horse 's training was taken over by L. T. ( Whitey ) Whitehill .
John Daniel Hertz , Sr. ( April 10 , 1879 - October 8 , 1961 ) was an American businessman , thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder , and philanthropist .
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Whirlaway ( April 2 , 1938 - April 6 , 1953 ) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse . The chestnut horse was sired by English Derby winner Blenheim , out of the broodmare Dustwhirl . Whirlaway was bred at Calumet Farm in Lexington , Kentucky . Trained by Ben A. Jones and ridden by Eddie Arcaro , Whirlaway won the U.S . Triple Crown in 1941 . Whirlaway was widely known as Mr. Longtail because his tail was especially long and thick and it would blow far out behind him during races , flowing dramatically in the wind . He was voted the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt in 1940 by Turf & Sports Digest magazine . The rival Daily Racing Form award was won by Our Boots .
Bimelech ( February 27 , 1937 - 1966 ) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse who won two Triple Crown races and was a Champion at both age two and three . He was ranked # 84 among U.S. racehorses of the 20th century . After retiring to stud , he sired 30 stakes winners and his daughters produced 50 stakes winners .
William A . Bill Hurley ( c.1871 - September 12 , 1952 ) was an American horse trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing . He is best remembered for his more than two decades as a trainer for Col. Edward R. Bradley 's Idle Hour Stock Farm . Among Bill Hurley 's early victories was a win with Kalitan in his first Preakness Stakes in 1917 , a race he would win again twenty-three years later . He trained Bagenbaggage , who won the 1926 Latonia and Louisiana Derbys and was second in the Kentucky Derby to stablemate , Bubbling Over . That same year Hurley also won the 1926 American Derby with Boot to Boot , beating both Display and Black Maria . In 1935 , Bill Hurley won the Florida Derby , Coaching Club American Oaks and American Derby with the great filly and 1991 U.S . Racing Hall of Fame inductee , Black Helen . Another of Hurley 's important Hall of Fame horses was Bimelech who earned U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt and 3-Year-Old honors in 1939 and 1940 respectively , and who just missed winning the U.S . Triple Crown when he finished second in the 1940 Kentucky Derby then won both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes . After 46 years with Idle Hour Stock Farm , Bill Hurley retired from racing in 1940 . He died at age 81 in 1952 at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables , Florida .
Idle Hour Stock Farm was a 400-acre ( 1.6 km² ) thoroughbred horse breeding and training farm near Lexington , Kentucky , United States established in 1906 by Colonel Edward R. Bradley . Beginning with the sire , Black Toney , and a roster of quality broodmares , Idle Hour Farm bred great champions such as the 1929 Horse of the Year Blue Larkspur and the Champion Three-Year-Old Colt , Bimelech . In 1931 , the farm acquired the mare La Troienne from noted French breeder Marcel Boussac . La Troienne became one of the most influential mares to be imported into the U.S. in the 20th century . Her offspring produced champions including Idle Hour Farm 's Bimlech , and its own two-year-old Champion Filly of 1944 and the 1945 Horse of the Year , Busher who was sold to movie mogul Louis B. Mayer . Later generation champions such as Buckpasser and Easy Goer trace their line to La Troienne . As well , under farm manager Olin B. Gentry and future Hall of Fame trainer Derby Dick Thompson , and later trainer Bill Hurley , the farm raced horses that won numerous major stakes races , including multiple winners in each of the U.S . Triple Crown events . As part of a program honoring important horse racing tracks and racing stables , the Pennsylvania Railroad named its baggage car # 5846 the Idle Hour Stock Farm . After Colonel Bradley 's death in 1946 , Ogden Phipps purchased a group of Idle Hour 's bloodstock that became the basis for what became Phipps ' major horse racing operation . Allen T. Simmons purchased Idle Hour Farm at auction and the property was divided into smaller parcels . The portion on the southern side of Old Frankfort Pike was purchased by King Ranch while a southern parcel was sold to Dan and Ada Rice and became a satellite operation of their Danada Farm in Wheaton , Illinois .
Challedon ( 1936-1958 ) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse . Bred in Maryland by William L. Brann and Robert S. Castle , he raced under the colors of their Branncastle Farm .
Louis J. Schaefer ( December 27 , 1907 - August 8 , 1988 ) was an American jockey and trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing best known for winning the Preakness Stakes , second leg of the U.S . Triple Crown series , both as a jockey and as a trainer . Schaefer rode Dr. Freedland to victory in the 1929 Preakness Stakes . He continued to ride into 1936 when he was hired by William L. Brann to take over as train for his racing stable in 1937 . Louis Schaefer trained Challedon to win the 1939 Preakness and went on to earn American Horse of the Year honors for that year . A resident of Uniondale , New York , in his latter years Louis Schaefer owned a bar and grill across the street from the old Jamaica Race Course . On August 8 , 1988 , he died of a heart attack at age 80 in a Hempstead , New York hospital .
William Leavitt Brann ( c.1877 - April 11 , 1951 ) was an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder . Born in Washington , Indiana , William Brann graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and moved to New York City where he founded the W. L. Brann Advertising Agency , serving national clients such as Montgomery Ward .
Stagehand ( foaled 1935 in Kentucky ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the only horse to ever win the Santa Anita Handicap as a three-year-old .
Earl Harold Sande ( November 13 , 1898 - August 19 , 1968 ) was an American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer .
War Admiral ( May 2 , 1934 - October 30 , 1959 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse , best known as the fourth winner of the American Triple Crown and Horse of the Year in 1937 , and rival of Seabiscuit in the 'Match Race of the Century ' in 1938 . During his career toward the end of the Great Depression , War Admiral won 21 of his 26 starts with earnings of $ 273,240 ( equivalent to $ 4,966,000 in 2019 ) After his retirement to stud , he was the leading sire in North America for 1945 and was also an outstanding broodmare sire whose influence is still felt today in descendants such as American Pharoah and Justify .
George H. Conway ( c. 1878 - June 20 , 1939 ) was a Triple Crown-winning American horse trainer who worked at Glen Riddle Farm in Berlin , Maryland . He is best known for training War Admiral , who won the Triple Crown in 1937 and was selected as the American Horse of the Year over his nephew and competitor Seabiscuit . Other notable horses trained by Conway include American Flag , who won the Belmont Stakes in 1925 before training with Conway , Crusader , who won the 1926 Belmont Stakes with Conway , Maid at Arms , who was the 1925 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly , and War Relic , who was the last horse that Conway trained . Conway retired to Oceanport , New Jersey , in June 1939 , where he died on June 20 , 1939 .
Glen Riddle Farm was a large horse farm in Berlin , Maryland in the United States . Located on what today is Route 50 between Ocean City and Berlin , it was owned by a wealthy textile businessman Samuel D. Riddle who named it for his home town Glen Riddle , Pennsylvania which in turn had been named for his grandfather . In addition to the stables and large mansion , Glen Riddle Farm had a one-mile racing oval for training thoroughbred racehorses . The farm was home to Hall of Fame racehorses Man o ' War , U.S . Triple Crown winner War Admiral , Crusader as well as other successful thoroughbreds such as Massachusetts Handicap winner War Relic , and American Flag , a son of Man o ' War who won the 1925 Belmont Stakes and was voted Champion 3-year-old Male Horse . As part of a program honoring important horse racing tracks and racing stables , the Pennsylvania Railroad named its baggage car # 5849 the Glen Riddle Farm . Samuel D. Riddle raced horses until his death in 1951 after which his heirs took over the property . A fire in 1969 destroyed the mansion and the farm was soon abandoned , left in disrepair for more than thirty years until real estate developers acquired it and built a residential housing complex in 2004 . In the mid-1920s , Samuel Riddle acquired Faraway Farm in Lexington , Kentucky where he would send his broodmares along with Man o ' War , American Flag , and other stallions . Glen Riddle Farm 's horses won numerous important stakes races including the following prestigious U.S . Triple Crown races :
Granville ( 1933-1951 ) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse . He was the leading American colt of his generation , winning the Belmont Stakes and being voted Horse of the Year .
James Edward Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons ( July 23 , 1874 - March 11 , 1966 ) was a thoroughbred racehorse trainer .
William Woodward Sr. ( April 7 , 1876 - September 25 , 1953 ) was an American banker and major owner and breeder in thoroughbred horse racing .