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 1940 STANDARDBREDATR 74124 | HAL DALE* b 1926 STANDARDBREDATR 72206 | ABBEDALE* blk 15.1hh 1917 | THE ABBE* | blk 1903 |
| DAISYDALE D | blk 3,2:15¼m 1908 |
MARGARET HAL b 1914 | ARGOT HAL | b 1903 |
| MARGARET POLK | b 1906 |
ADIOO VOLO b 1930 STANDARDBRED | ADIOO GUY* ch 1910 | GUY DILLON | b 1902 |
| ADIOO | b 1895 |
SIGRID VOLO b p,2:04m 1921 | PETER VOLO* | | br 16hh 1911 |
| POLLY PARROT | ch p 2:13¼ 1904 |
DEBBY HANOVER b p,4,2:13.1h $1,550 1948 STANDARDBRED | BILLY DIRECT* b 1934 STANDARDBREDATR 73233 | NAPOLEON DIRECT* ch 1909 | WALTER DIRECT* | b 1900 |
| LADY ERECTRESS | ro 1902 |
GAY FORBES br p,5,2:07¾m 1916 | MALCOLM FORBES | b 1904 |
| GAY GIRL CHIMES | b 1911 |
BONNIE BUTLER br p3,T2:03m $10,307 1940 STANDARDBRED | VOLOMITE* br 15.2hh 1926 | PETER VOLO* | | br 16hh 1911 |
| CITA FRISCO | b 1921 |
RUTH ABBE br p,3,2:04¾m 1934 | ABBE GUY | blk 1925 |
| RUTH MCKINNEY | b T2:16¼h 1925 |
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