Count Turf
| Count Turf | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Count Fleet |
| Grandsire | Reigh Count |
| Dam | Delmarie |
| Damsire | Pompey |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1948 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Dr. & Mrs. Frank Porter Miller |
| Owner | Jack Joseph Amiel |
| Trainer | 1) Sol Rutchick 2) William B. Finnegan |
| Record | 45: 8-4-6 |
| Earnings | $166,375 |
| Major wins | |
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Dover Stakes (1950) Kentucky Derby (1951) Questionnaire Handicap (1953) |
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| Honours | |
| Count Turf Drive, Louisville, Kentucky | |
| Last updated on May 27, 2010 | |
Count Turf (April 27, 1948 – October 18, 1966) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known as the winner of the 1951 Kentucky Derby. He is one of only two equine families where three generations have won the Kentucky Derby. His grandsire Reigh Count won the 1928 Derby and then his sire Count Fleet won it in 1943. Count Fleet went on to win the U.S. Triple Crown. The only other father/son/grandson combination to win the Derby was Pensive (1944) who sired Ponder (1949) who in turn sired the 1956 winner, Needles.
Bred and raised at Runnymede Farm near Paris, Kentucky, Count Turf was owned by New York City restaurateur Jack Amiel who bought him at a yearling sale for $3,700. Amiel named him Count for his sire and Turf for his Turf Restaurant in Times Square. In the mid-1950s, Amiel dispensed with his ownership of the Turf Restaurant and became a co-owner of next-door's Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant.
Racing at age two, Count Turf's best showings were second-place finishes in both the Youthful Stakes and the Christiana Stakes. Wintered in Florida, at age three he showed little promise in the races leading up to the 1951 Kentucky Derby. Conditioned by Turkish-born trainer Sol Rutchick, the colt finished off the board in the Flamingo and Everglade Stakes in Florida and in the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York.
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