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unusual facts about Loyd Gentry, Jr.



Loyd Gentry, Jr.

His father trained for the prominent Canadian horseman Harry C. Hatch for whom he conditioned the winner of the 1941 King's Plate.

In 1955 he sent two of Guggenheim's colts to run in the Kentucky Derby: the Bluegrass Stakes winner Racing Fool, ridden by Henry Moreno, finished fourth, and Flying Fury, winner of the Champagne Stakes, ridden by Conn McCreary, ran sixth.


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