Hal Price Headley

Hal Price Headley
Hal Price Headley
Born	December 19, 1888; Lexington, Kentucky,; United States
Died	March 22, 1962 (aged 73); Lexington, Kentucky,; United States
Resting place	Lexington Cemetery
Education	Princeton University
Occupations	Farmer, racehorse owner/breeder, racetrack owner/executive, philanthropist
Known for	Beaumont Farm, Keeneland
Board member of	Keeneland
Spouses	Martha Sharkey Withers; (1889–1922); Genevieve Morgan Molloy; (1897–1987);
Children	6
Honors	Keeneland Mark of Distinction (1968); U.S. Racing Hall of Fame; - Pillars of the Turf (2018)

Hal Price Headley (December 19, 1888 – March 22, 1962) was an American owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses and a founder of Keeneland who served as the race track's president from 1935 to 1951. He owned the 4,000 acre Beaumont Farm on Harrodsburg Road at the western edge of Lexington, Kentucky as well as the 15,000-acre Pinebloom Plantation in Baker County, Georgia.^[3]

Hal Price Headley was one of those profiled by racing historian Edward L. Bowen in his 2003 book Legacies of the Turf : A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders.

In 2018, Hal Price Headley was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as one of the "Pillars of the Turf".^[4] The honor is for those "who have made extraordinary contributions to Thoroughbred racing in a leadership or pioneering capacity at the highest national level."^[5]

References

^ Lexington Cemetery
^ Blalock, A.; Kieffer Jr, R. F. (1950). "Valvulotomy for the Relief of Congenital Valvular Pulmonic Stenosis with Intact Ventricular Septum: Report of Nineteen Operations by the Brock Method". Annals of Surgery. 132 (3): 496–514. doi:10.1097/00000658-195009000-00015. PMC 1616785. PMID 15433217.
^ "Hal Price Headley Dead at 73; Owner of Thoroughbred Horses; Operated Beaumont Farm-- His Alcibiades Won the Kentucky Oaks in '30". New York Times. March 23, 1962.
^ "Hal Price Headley". Racingmuseum.org. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
^ "August Belmont Jr. and Paul Mellon Selected" (Press release). Saratoga Springs, NY: National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. 2013-06-05. Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-18.

External links

Hal Price Headley 1888-1962 - Thoroughbred Park - Kentucky Historical Markers [1]

[1] Lexington Cemetery

[2] Blalock, A.; Kieffer Jr, R. F. (1950). "Valvulotomy for the Relief of Congenital Valvular Pulmonic Stenosis with Intact Ventricular Septum: Report of Nineteen Operations by the Brock Method". Annals of Surgery. 132 (3): 496–514. doi:10.1097/00000658-195009000-00015. PMC 1616785. PMID 15433217.

[3] "Hal Price Headley Dead at 73; Owner of Thoroughbred Horses; Operated Beaumont Farm-- His Alcibiades Won the Kentucky Oaks in '30". New York Times. March 23, 1962.

[4] "Hal Price Headley". Racingmuseum.org. 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2019-10-17.

[5] "August Belmont Jr. and Paul Mellon Selected" (Press release). Saratoga Springs, NY: National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. 2013-06-05. Archived from the original on 2014-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-18.

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