- Carry Back
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Carry Back
caption =
sire = Saggy
grandsire = Swing and Sway
dam = Joppy
damsire = Star Blen
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1958
country =United States flagicon|USA
colour = Brown
breeder = Mrs. Katherine Price.
owner = Mrs. Katherine Price. Silks: Blue, Silver Hoops and Sleeves, Blue and Silver cap.
trainer =Jack A. Price
record = 61: 21-11-11
earnings = $1,241,165
race =Remsen Stakes (1960)Cowdin Stakes (1960)Garden State Futurity (1960)Flamingo Stakes (1961)Florida Derby (1961)Kentucky Derby (1961)Preakness Stakes (1961)Everglades Stakes (1961)Jerome Handicap (1961)Trenton Handicap (1961 & 1963)Metropolitan Handicap (1962)
Monmouth Handicap (1962)Whitney Stakes (1962)
awards= U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1961)
honours = United States Racing Hall of Fame (1975)
#83 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Interred -Kentucky Derby Museum ,Churchill Downs
Carry Back Stakes atCalder Race Course
updated= October 5, 2006Carry Back (1958-1983) was an American Hall of Fame
Thoroughbred racehorse with a less than stellar pedigree but who nonetheless won many importantgraded stakes race s including the 1961Kentucky Derby andPreakness Stakes . His racing colors were blue, silver hoops and sleeves. In theBelmont Stakes , Carry Back finished seventh in a nine-horse field, 14 lengths behind winnerSherluck , whom he had soundly beaten in the first two U.S. Triple Crown races.References
* [http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall/horse.asp?ID=42 Carry Back at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame]
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/carry+back Carry Back's pedigree]
* [http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/derby_history/derby_charts/years/1961.html 1961 Kentucky Derby]
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