AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
CHAMPIONS
BEST HORSES
LEADING HOBEAU FARM RUNNERS
GREAT UPSETS
SOUND CLIPS OF SOME OF ALLEN'S FAVORITE RACES

Awards and Achievements

Leading trainer in New York, 1957, '62, '66, '69 and 1998.
Eclipse Award as Outstanding Trainer, 1973 and again in 1984

Jerkens was the youngest trainer to be inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame; He was just only 45 years old.

2002- TURF WRITERS AWARDS -- The National Turf Writers Association announced its annual awards this week. Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens won the Mr. Fitz Award for "typifying the spirit of horse racing."

He has trained over 160 stakes winners during his career.

 

Champions Trained by Jerkens

Sky Beauty, Champion Older Filly, 1994

Best Horses Trained by Jerkens

Sky Beauty, War Command, Beau Purple, Pocosaba Handsome Boy, Onion, Prove Out, Sensitive Prince Devil His Due, Classy Mirage, Admiral Vee, Kelly Kip, Shine On, Classy Morage. House Party, Mac's Sparkler, Harem Lady, Beaukins Mighty, Lak A Rose, Tunex, Peace Corps, Rixdal, Co Host, Red Orange, Duck Dance, Shine Again, King's Bishop. Virginia Rapids .

Leading Hobeau Farm Runners

Beau Purple Handsome Boy Blessing America Kelly Kip Canal Onion Dice Dancer Never Bow Duck Dance Peace Corps Garland of Roses Prove Out Group Plan Step Nicely

Great Upsets


In1962, he beat Kelso three times with Beau Purple in the Suburban Handicap, Man o' War and Widener Handicap.
In 1963, he beat three-time filly champion Cicada in the Black Helen Handicap with Pocosaba.
In 1967, he beat Buckpasser in the Brooklyn Handicap with Handsome Boy.
In 1973, he beat Secretariat twice: in the Whitney Handicap with Onion and in the Woodward with Prove Out.
In 1998, be beat both eventual Horse of the Year Skip Away and Gentleman in the Jockey Club Gold Cup with 34-1 Wagon Limit.

Wagon Limit defeating Skip Away and Gentlemen in the Jockey Club Gold Cup-G1

SOUND CLIPS

Onion defeating Secretariat in the 1973 Whitney Handicap (G1)

Prove Out defeating Secretariat in the 1973 Woodward Handicap (G1)

Wagon Limit defeating Skip Away in the 1998 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1)