The Palm Beach Handicap is a discontinued American Grade 3 Thoroughbred horse race run between 1937 and 1976 at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida . Open to horses aged three and older, from inception through 1965 it was run on dirt after which it became a race on turf .
22-610: First run on February 27, 1937, the race was won by Calumet Farm's Count Morse with jockey Irving Anderson aboard. Following that inaugural running, the Palm Beach Handicap was not held again until 1941, a year frequently reported as its first edition. The final running took place on January 21, 1976 and was won by Sea Lawyer who was ridden by Gerland Gallitano for the Shore View Farm partnership of three Florida medical doctors. Speed record: Most wins: Most wins by
44-605: A jockey : Most wins by a trainer : Most wins by an owner: Calumet Farm Calumet Farm is a 762-acre (3.08 km ) 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
66-475: A Brazilian investment group. The win of Oxbow in the 2013 Preakness Stakes marked the return of Calumet to the winner's circle of a Triple Crown race for the first time since 1968. 38°02′52.3″N 84°34′37.5″W / 38.047861°N 84.577083°W / 38.047861; -84.577083 Blenheim (horse) Blenheim (1927–1958), also known as Blenheim II, was a British Thoroughbred race horse who won The Derby in 1930. As sire, he had
88-670: A highly successful broodmare. She was the dam of seven winners, including the Coronation Cup winners King Salmon (sire of Herringbone ) and His Grace. As a yearling , Blenheim was sold for 4,100 guineas to the Aga Khan . He was sent into training with Richard Dawson at his Whatcombe stables near Wantage in Oxfordshire . Blenheim began his racing career in April 1929 when he won a £200 plate at Newbury Racecourse . He then finished second in
110-541: A jockey whose expertise at holding up horses for a late run had earned him the nickname "The Head Waiter". The race attracted its customary huge crowd, with the spectators including the King and Queen as well as the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York . Blenheim started an 18/1 outsider in a field of seventeen. Rustom Pasha led the field on the final turn but weakened and dropped away in
132-568: A major influence on pedigrees around the world. Blenheim was highly tried, by European standards, as a two-year-old in 1929, winning four of his seven races. In the following season he was beaten in his first two races before recording an upset 18/1 win in the Derby. His racing career was ended by injury soon afterwards, and he was retired to stud, where he became an extremely successful and influential breeding stallion, both in Europe and North America. Blenheim
154-425: A month. After years of legal proceedings, in 2000, Lundy along with Gary Matthews, the farm's former attorney and chief financial officer, were convicted of fraud and bribery and sent to prison. In 1992, a trust established by Henryk de Kwiatkowski , a Polish -born Canadian , purchased Calumet Farm, saving it from possible liquidation. Since 1992, the farm has been fully restored to its former beauty. In 2012,
176-559: A record history of Kentucky Derby and Triple Crown winners and 11 horses in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame . Calumet Farm has produced ten Kentucky Derby winners, more than any other operation. The farm is also the leading breeder and owner of Preakness Stakes winners, with seven each. Two of the farm's colts have won the U.S. Triple Crown and three females the Triple Crown for fillies . Calumet Farm's winners of
198-602: A time when harness racing was the most popular type of horse racing , in 1931 the farm's trotter "Calumet Butler" won the most prestigious event of the day, the Hambletonian . After Wright died in 1932, his son Warren Wright, Sr. took over the business and began converting it to Thoroughbred breeding and training. His acquisition of quality breeding stock saw Calumet Farm develop into one of North America 's most successful stables in Thoroughbred racing history. Calumet Farm
220-528: The Kentucky Derby are: Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944), Citation (1948), Ponder (sired by Pensive - 1949), Hill Gail (1952), Iron Liege (1957), Tim Tam (1958), Forward Pass (1968 by DQ), Strike the Gold (1991) and Rich Strike (2022). Two of these greats, Whirlaway and Citation, are United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing champions. Eleven of the farm's horses have been inducted into
242-552: The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame . Other well-known horses include Nellie Flag , Armed , Two Lea , Mar-Kell , A Gleam , Twilight Tear , Mark-Ye-Well , A Glitter, Bewitch , Coaltown , Real Delight , Bardstown , Our Mims , Davona Dale , Alydar , and Before Dawn . Founded in Libertyville, Illinois , the Standardbred breeding operation was moved to the more favorable climate of Kentucky by W. M. Wright. At
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#1732877145873264-439: The 1990 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder . In November of that year, details surrounding the death of 15-year-old Alydar —America's leading sire of the time—and the collection of a $ 36 million insurance policy—brought a cloud of suspicion over the business. Under Lundy, mismanagement and fraud had left the farm with significant debt that led Calumet Farm to file for bankruptcy protection in 1991 as they were losing $ 1 million
286-470: The Calumet Investment Group bought Calumet Farm from the de Kwiatkowski Trust for more than $ 36 million. Calumet Investment Group in turn leased it to Brad M. Kelley , believed to be a member of the investment group. Kelley's horses race under the name of Calumet Farm, but they carry Kelley's black and gold racing colors , as the original "Devil's Red and Blue" silks of Calumet had been sold to
308-731: The Stud Produce Stakes at Sandown and won the Speedy Plate at Windsor . He was then moved up in class to contest the New Stakes over five furlongs at Royal Ascot . Ridden by Dawson's stable jockey Michael Beary he started at odds of 7/2 and won from Lord Woolavington 's Press Gang. In autumn he finished second to Fair Diana in the Champagne Stakes and then won the Hopeful Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse . On his final race of
330-407: The next year by Mahmoud , who won the 1936 Epsom Derby. His next crop of foals included Donatello, one of Federico Tesio ’s best horses who sired Crepello and Alycidon . He was sold after that year's breeding season for £45,000 to an American syndicate that included Claiborne Farm , Calumet Farm , Greentree Farm and Stoner Creek Stud before being exported to America in 1936 where he
352-565: The season he started favourite for the Middle Park Stakes but finished second by half a length to Press Gang. It was noted that Blenheim may have been feeling the effects of his "punishing" schedule. He ended the season with earnings of £4,497. Blenheim was slow to find his form as a three-year-old and began his 1930 campaign by running unplaced behind Christopher Robin in the Greenham Stakes at Newbury. Despite his poor performance in
374-404: The straight. Blenheim was produced by Wragg with a perfectly timed run to take the lead inside the final furlong and won by a length from Iliad with Diolite in third. After the race Wragg described the winner as "a lovely little horse" and explained that although he had only made very gradual progress in the second half of the race he had always been confident of victory. After the Derby, Blenheim
396-577: The top money-earning farm in racing for 12 years. In 1969, the Keeneland Association honored Calumet Farm with its Keeneland Mark of Distinction for their contribution to Keeneland and the Thoroughbred industry. Lucille Wright died in 1982 and according to the terms of her first husband's will, the farm went to the heirs of their only child, Warren Wright, Jr. (1920–1978). John Thomas "J.T." Lundy, who married Lucille "Cindy" Wright, took over as head of operations and president. Calumet Farm won
418-474: The trial, he was well-fancied for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket two weeks later. He finished fourth of the twenty-eight runners behind Diolite , Paradine and Silver Flare. A month later, Blenheim was moved up in distance to contest the Derby over one and a half miles at Epsom Downs Racecourse . Beary elected to ride the Aga Khan's more fancied runner Rustom Pasha, while the ride on Blenheim went to Harry Wragg ,
440-463: Was a brown horse standing 15.3 hands high with a white star and a white sock on his left hind leg, bred by Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon at his Highclere stud. He was sired by the good sire Blandford , a three-time British champion sire , whose other progeny included Bahram , Brantome , Trigo , Pasch and Windsor Lad . Blenheim's dam, Malva (1919–1941) who stood barely 15 hands, won three minor races for Lord Carnarvon before becoming
462-508: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The Pennsylvania Railroad named its baggage car #5868 the "Calumet Farm". A key move was acquiring part ownership in Blenheim , a stallion imported from England , and its foundation sire, Bull Lea . Under Warren Wright, Sr. and his wife Lucille Parker Wright , who inherited the property on his death in 1950, Calumet was
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#1732877145873484-616: Was being prepared or a run in the Eclipse Stakes when he sustained a tendon injury. He did not recover sufficiently to resume racing and was retired to stud. In their book A Century of Champions , John Randall and Tony Morris rated Blenheim an “inferior” Derby winner. He entered stud in 1932 at the Aga Khan's Haras Marly-la-Ville in Val-d'Oise , France, where he stood at a fee of 400 guineas. In his first crop of foals, he sired Mumtaz Begum (bred eight winners, including Nasrullah ), followed
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