ADIOS BUTLER H, STANDARDBRED, 1956
| Color: b Height: p,4,T1:54.3m
Foaled 01-Sep-1956, New York.
p4,TT1:54.3; 1st Triple Crown winner; won 37 of 50 races.
Adios Butler (1956 - 1983) was a North American harness racing champion.
Sired by the great standardbred Adios with an obscure broodmare named Debby Hanover, Adios Butler was trained and driven by Clint Hodgins. In 1959, Adios Butler won the Cane Pace, then the Little Brown Jug where he was the first horse to win with a sub-two-minute mile and finally the Messenger Stakes, doing it in track and stake record time to become the first pacer to ever capture the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers.
The following year he lost only one race on a muddy track but later would go on to record a 1:54.3 mile, the then fastest time in harness racing history. Adios Butler was named \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Horse of the Year\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ in 1960 and 1961 by the U.S. Trotting Association and the U.S. Harness Writers Association. retired
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ADIOS BUTLER* b p,4,T1:54.3m 1956 STANDARDBRED | ADIOS* b p,5,T,1:57½m $33,329 1940 STANDARDBRED | HAL DALE* b p,6,2:02½m $595 1926 STANDARDBRED | ABBEDALE* blk p,2:01 1/4m 1917 STANDARDBRED | THE ABBE blk 3,T2:10 3/4m p,2:03 1/2m 1903 | | CHIMES | br 1884 |
| NETTIE KING | ch 1887 |
DAISYDALE D blk 1908 | ARCHDALE | blk 1897 |
| MRS TMOLUS | b 1901 |
MARGARET HAL b 1914 STANDARDBRED | ARGOT HAL b 16h 2:07½m p,11,T2:04¾m 1903 | BROWN HAL* | br 15.3h 1879 |
| LADY WILDFLOWER | b 1891 |
MARGARET POLK b 1906 | JOHN R GENTRY* | b 1889 |
| STELLA HAL | b 1885 |
ADIOO VOLO b p,3,2:05 h 1930 STANDARDBRED | ADIOO GUY ch p,9,2:00¾m 1910 STANDARDBRED | GUY DILLON b 1902 | SIDNEY DILLON | ch 1892 |
| BY GUY | b 1894 |
ADIOO b 1895 | GUY WILKES | dkb/br 2:15¼m 1878 |
| BY BY | b 1885 |
SIGRID VOLO b p,2:04m 1921 STANDARDBRED | PETER VOLO* br 4,2:02m 1911 | | PETER THE GREAT* | br 15.3H 4,2:07 1/4m 1895 |
| NERVOLO BELLE* | br 1906 |
POLLY PARROT ch p 2:13¼ 1904 | JERSEY B B | ch 1900 |
| LADY MAUD C | ch 16.1 H p ,2:00 1/2 1:59½ 1900 |
DEBBY HANOVER p,4,2:13.1h $1,550 1948 STANDARDBRED | BILLY DIRECT b p,4,T1:55m $12,040 1934 STANDARDBRED | NAPOLEON DIRECT ch p,1:59¼m 1905 STANDARDBRED | WALTER DIRECT* b 1900 | DIRECT HAL | blk 1896 |
| ELLA BROWN | b 1885 |
| LADY ERECTRESS | TOM KENDALL | |
| NELLY ZARRO | |
GAY FORBES br 1916 STANDARDBRED | MALCOLM FORBES b 1904 | BINGEN | br 6,2:06¼m $12.035 1893 |
| NANCY HANKS | br 6,T2:04m 1886 |
GAY GIRL CHIMES b 1911 | BERKSHIRE CHIMES | br ~1890 |
| MISS GAY GIRL | br 1904 |
BONNIE BUTLER (USA) 1940 STANDARDBRED | VOLOMITE * blk/br 3,2:03¼m,$32,649 1926 STANDARDBRED | PETER VOLO* br 4,2:02m 1911 | | PETER THE GREAT* | br 15.3H 4,2:07 1/4m 1895 |
| NERVOLO BELLE* | br 1906 |
CITA FRISCO b 1921 | SAN FRANCISCO | br 5,T2:07¾m 1903 |
| MENDOCITA | b 1899 |
RUTH ABBE (USA) 1934 STANDARDBRED | BERT ABBE b p,T1:59.3m 1922 | THE ABBE | | blk 3,T2:10 3/4m p,2:03 1/2m 1903 |
| MISS ELLA H | b 1913 |
RUTH MCKINNEY 1925 | ARION MCKINNEY | 1913 |
| HAZEL FRISCO | 1915 |
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