ADIOS BUTLER b. H, STANDARDBRED, 1956
| Color: b Height: p,4,T1:54.3m $509,875
ATR 98046
3m Foaled 01-Sep-1956, NY 1st Triple Crown winner; won 37 of 50 races. Died Dec 1983 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 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 beating Dan Patch's 1:55 1/4 set in 1905. 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 $509,875 1956 STANDARDBREDATR 98046 | ADIOS* b p,T1:57.4m $33,329 1940 STANDARDBREDATR 74124 | HAL DALE* b p,6,2:02¼m $595 1926 STANDARDBREDATR. 72206 | ABBEDALE* blk 15.1 1917 STANDARDBREDATR 65010 | THE ABBE* blk p,2:04 1903 | | CHIMES* | br 3,2:30¾m 1884 |
NETTIE KING | ch 4,2:20¼ 1887 |
DAISYDALE D blk 3,2:15¼m 1908 | ARCHDALE* | blk 1897 |
MRS TMOLUS | b 1901 |
MARGARET HAL b p,2,2:19¼ 1914 STANDARDBRED | ARGOT HAL b 16h p,11,T2:04¾ 1903 | BROWN HAL | br p 2:12 1/2 1879 |
LADY WILDFLOWER | b p 1891 |
MARGARET POLK b 1906 | JOHN R GENTRY* | b p,7,2:00½m 1889 |
STELLA HAL | b p 1885 |
ADIOO VOLO b p,3,2:05h 1930 STANDARDBRED | ADIOO GUY* ch p,9,2:00¾m 1910 STANDARDBREDATR. 65571 | GUY DILLON b T2:21¼m 1902 | SIDNEY DILLON* | ch 1892 |
BY GUY | b 1894 |
ADIOO b 1895 | GUY WILKES* | b 2:15¼m 1878 |
BY BY | b 1885 |
SIGRID VOLO b p,2:04m 1921 STANDARDBRED | PETER VOLO* br 16.0 1911 | | PETER THE GREAT* | b 15.3 1895 |
NERVOLO BELLE* | br 1906 |
POLLY PARROT ch p 2:13¼ 1904 | JERSEY B B | ch 1900 |
LADY MAUD C* | ch 16¼ 1901 |
DEBBY HANOVER b p,4,2:13.1h $1,550 1948 STANDARDBRED | BILLY DIRECT* b p,4,T1:55m $12,040 1934 STANDARDBREDATR 73233 | NAPOLEON DIRECT* ch p,1:59¾m 1909 STANDARDBREDATR. 02568 | WALTER DIRECT* b p,2:05¾ 1900 | DIRECT HAL* | blk p,2;04¼ 1896 |
ELLA BROWN | b 1885 |
LADY ERECTRESS ro 1902 | TOM KENDLE | 1898 |
NELLY ZARRO | 1898 |
GAY FORBES br p,5,2:07¾m 1916 STANDARDBRED | MALCOLM FORBES b 2:06¼ 1904 | BINGEN* | br 6,2:06¼m $12,035 1893 |
NANCY HANKS* | br 15¾ 6,T2:04m 1886 |
GAY GIRL CHIMES b 1911 | BERKSHIRE CHIMES | br 1900 |
MISS GAY GIRL | br 1904 |
BONNIE BUTLER br p3,T2:03m $10,307 1940 STANDARDBRED | VOLOMITE* br 15.2 1926 STANDARDBREDATR 68580 | PETER VOLO* br 16.0 1911 | | PETER THE GREAT* | b 15.3 1895 |
NERVOLO BELLE* | br 1906 |
CITA FRISCO b 1921 | SAN FRANCISCO* | br 2:07¾m, 1903 |
MENDOCITA | b 1899 |
RUTH ABBE br p,3,2:04¾m 1934 STANDARDBRED | ABBE GUY blk p,3,T2:04m 1925 | THE ABBE* | | blk p,2:04 1903 |
MAE WORTHY | b 1919 |
RUTH MCKINNEY b T2:16¼h 1925 | ARION MCKINNEY | b 1913 |
HAZEL FRISCO | b 1915 |
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