Town Policy (horse)

Town Policy (horse)

Horse infobox
horsename = Town Policy


caption = - Town Policy -
breed = Quarter Horse
discipline = Racing
sire = Reb's Policy (TB)
grandsire = New Policy (TB)
dam = Camptown Girl
damsire = Breeze Bar
sex = Gelding
foaled = 1975
country = United States
color = Bay
breeder = Ivan Ashment
owner = Ivan Ashment
racerecord = 64-22-?-?
raceearnings = $862,000.00
racewins = won 8 stakes races, including Kindergarten Futurity, Los Alamitos Derby, Vessels Maturity
raceawards= 1977 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old, 1978 Champion Quarter Running Three Year Old Gelding, 1980 Champion Quarter Running Aged Gelding
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 12 2008

Town Policy was a Quarter Horse racehorse, noted not only for his achievements on the racetrack, but for disappearing from his stall in 1977 and being recovered five months later in Mexico.Groves "Horsenapped" "Quarter Horse Journal" November 1997 p. 18] Goves "Town Policy" "Quarter Horse Journal" October 1997 p. 18] A mere ten weeks after being recovered, Town Policy went on to win the Los Alamitos Derby by two and a half lengths.Huffman "They Earned a Place" p. 68] He broke his shoulder in an allowance race on January 3 1984 and was buried in the infield of Los Alamitos Race Course the next day.

He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008]

Notes

References

* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* Groves, Lesli Krause "Horsenapped" "Quarter Horse Journal" November 1997 p. 18
* Groves, Lesli Krause "Town Policy" "Quarter Horse Journal" October 1997 p. 18
* Huffman, Christi L. "They Earned a Place" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 1998 p. 68-75

External links

* [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/town+policy Town Policy Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree]
* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=13623&sex=Gelding Town Policy at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4222222223222 Town Policy at Quarter Horse Legends]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/2760455283/ Final Resting Place of Town Policy at Los Alamitos Racetrack]


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