death_date birth_place race birth_date horses article_title name occupation
september 17 , 1999 -lsb- -rsb- oxford , chester county , pennsylvania , usa flamingo -rrb- pennsylvania derby -lrb- 1983 -rrb- massachusetts handicap -lrb- 1984 stakes -rrb- hopeful stakes -lrb- 1985 -rrb- hutcheson stakes -lrb- 1986 -lrb- , 1989 -rrb- fountain of youth stakes -lrb- 1989 -rrb- 1959 private terms stakes -lrb- 1990 -rrb- pegasus handicap -lrb- 1994 -rrb- -rrb- shuvee handicap -lrb- 1977 february 3 , 1924 dixieland band , papal power , baron de vaux charles peoples
 charles peoples trainer
charles peoples

charles peoples -lrb- february 3 , 1924 -- september 17 , 1999 -rrb- was an american thoroughbred racehorse trainer .
charles and his twin sister isabel peoples were born in 1924 to charles and annie peoples , both first-generation immigrants to chester county , pennsylvania , from county donegal , ireland .
in the latter part of the 1950s , he started conditioning horses for the operations of bayard sharp , a director of delaware park racetrack and a president of the blood-horse inc. .
unknown to each other at the time they came together in racing , sharp had been the teenage stranger who saved a four-year-old charles peoples and a small girl from drowning when he pulled them out of the bottom of a pond .
-lsb- http://www.bloodhorse.com/articleindex/article.asp?id=10901] based at sharp farm in middletown , delaware , peoples won a number of important races .
in 1959 , he won the flamingo stakes at hialeah park race track with troilus .
sent to the kentucky derby under jockey chris rogers , troilus moved from his tenth starting position into the lead at the half-mile mark but then stopped badly and finished last .
it was later discovered that the colt had been suffering from an ulcer , and he died later that year from peritonitis .
peoples also trained dixieland band , winner of the 1983 pennsylvania derby and the 1984 massachusetts handicap .
in 1985 , peoples won the grade i hopeful stakes with papal power .
peoples died in 1999 at the age of seventy-five .
