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Crozier

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Crozier

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
1985 (aged 26–27)
Marion County, Florida, USA
Burial
Ocala, Marion County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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Sire: My Babu
Dam: Miss Olympia
Trainers:
1) Charles R. Parke
2) Julius E. Tinsley, Jr.
Race record: 34 Starts: 10 - 12 - 3, $641,733

Bred and raced by Fred W.Hooper, Crozier competed at racetracks from coast to coast, counting among his stakes wins the prestigious Santa Anita Handicap. The bay colt set track records while winning the 1960 Washington Park Futurity and the 1961 Kentucky Derby Trial. He would then finish second in the Kentucky Derby to Carry Back.

At stud, Crozier is best remembered as the sire of the great Precisionist, a Champion Sprinter and U. S. Hall of Fame inductee.
Sire: My Babu
Dam: Miss Olympia
Trainers:
1) Charles R. Parke
2) Julius E. Tinsley, Jr.
Race record: 34 Starts: 10 - 12 - 3, $641,733

Bred and raced by Fred W.Hooper, Crozier competed at racetracks from coast to coast, counting among his stakes wins the prestigious Santa Anita Handicap. The bay colt set track records while winning the 1960 Washington Park Futurity and the 1961 Kentucky Derby Trial. He would then finish second in the Kentucky Derby to Carry Back.

At stud, Crozier is best remembered as the sire of the great Precisionist, a Champion Sprinter and U. S. Hall of Fame inductee.


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  • Created by: Darby Dan
  • Added: Apr 16, 2017
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178456067/crozier: accessed ), memorial page for Crozier (6 May 1958–1985), Find a Grave Memorial ID 178456067, citing Hooper Farm Equine Cemetery, Ocala, Marion County, Florida, USA; Maintained by Darby Dan (contributor 49016676).