Homer Chesley Pardue

Education

Twenty years later he had his first Kentucky Derby runner in when Red Hannigan finished twelfth in the 1954 running.

Career

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, across the street from Churchill Downs, Pardue began working in the racing industry as an exercise rider at the famous track while a fourteen-year-old schoolboy. The colt finished second in both the Derby and the Preakness Stakes and then sixth in the Belmont Stakes. On January 5, 1979, Pardue died at age 68 at his home in Louisville, Kentucky.

In 2000, he was posthumously inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame.

Achievements

• 1972 saw Pardue return to the Triple Crown series with his Louisiana and Arkansas Derby winner, Number Le Hace. Among Pardue"s other important wins, in 1975 he trained two-year-old Soy Numero Uno to a win in the then-most important United States. race for juveniles, the Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park. With Clev Er Tell, in 1977 Pardue again won the Louisiana and Arkansas Derbys in the same year but did not make it to the Triple Crown events when the horse suffered a fractured knee during training.