SPECTACULAR BID TRAINER DELP DIES.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Bud Delp Grover Greer "Bud" Delp (September 7 1932 - December 29 2006) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best remembered for his conditioning of Hall of Fame colt, Spectacular Bid. , the Hall of Fame trainer who guided Spectacular Bid to Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. and Preakness victories in 1979 and an undefeated season in 1980, died Friday of cancer in Ellicott City, Md. He was 74. Delp was ninth on the career wins list with 3,674, his horses earning nearly $41 million in purses. But his proudest achievements involved Spectacular Bid, whom Delp called ``the greatest horse ever to look through a bridle'' and who is generally considered one of the greatest American thoroughbreds. The season after Spectacular Bid captured the first two legs of the Triple Crown and finished third in the Belmont Stakes, the colt was undefeated in nine races, including the Strub Stakes and Santa Anita Handicap The Santa Anita Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually in the late winter at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. It is a Grade I race for horses three years old and up, and is considered the most important race for older horses in North America during . Delp earned the Eclipse Award for Trainer of the Year. Delp is survived by his wife, Regina, three sons, a daughter and two grandsons. At Santa Anita: Bob Baffert-trained Downthedustyroad won the $250,000 La Brea Stakes The La Brea Stakes is a race for thoroughbred horses open to three-year-old fillies. The La Brea is at a distance of seven furlongs on the Santa Anita Park dirt track. A Grade I event, it offers a purse of $250,000. , beating Squallacious by 41/4 lengths. Ridden by Jon Court, the 3-year-old filly paid $9. Favored Balance finished third. Virus scare: Three BayArea racetracks were placed under quarantine after a thoroughbred at Golden Gate Fields Golden Gate Fields is a horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay adjacent to the tested positive for the potentially deadly equine herpes virus Herpes virus Viruses that can infect the skin, mucous membranes, and brain, and they are responsible for such diseases as herpes simplex, chicken pox, and shingles. Mentioned in: Erythema Multiforme . The California Horse Racing Board ordered that horses may be transferred between Golden Gate, Bay Meadows and Pleasanton, but no horse may leave the circuit. Horses arriving from other tracks will be subject to quarantine. Racing continues as scheduled at Golden Gate, in Albany. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Grover `Bud' Delp was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 2002. His horses won nearly $41 million. Jim McKnight/Associated Press |
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