Charles Peoples

Charles Peoples
Occupation	Trainer
Born	February 3, 1924 United States
Died	September 17, 1999
Career wins	Not found
Major racing wins, honours and awards
Major racing wins
Flamingo Stakes (1959) Shuvee Handicap (1977) Pennsylvania Derby (1983) Massachusetts Handicap (1984) Hopeful Stakes (1985) Hutcheson Stakes (1986, 1989) Fountain of Youth Stakes (1989) Private Terms Stakes (1990) Pegasus Handicap (1994)
Significant horses
Dixieland Band, Papal Power, Baron de Vaux

Charles Peoples (February 3, 1924 – September 17, 1999) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

In the latter part of the 1950s, he started conditioning horses for the operations of Bayard Sharp, a director of Delaware Park Racetrack and a president of The Blood-Horse Inc. Unknown to each other at the time they came together in racing, Bayard Sharp had been the teenage stranger who had saved a four-year-old Charles Peoples and a small girl from drowning when he pulled them out of the bottom of a pond. [1]

Based at Sharp Farm in Middletown, Delaware, Charles Peoples won a number of important races. In 1959 he won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park Race Track with Troilus. Sent to the Kentucky Derby, under jockey Chris Rogers, Troilus moved from his tenth starting position into the lead at the half-mile mark but then stopped badly and finished last. It was later discovered that the promising colt had been suffering from an ulcer and he died later that year from peritonitis.

Peoples also trained Dixieland Band, winner of the 1983 Pennsylvania Derby and the 1984 Massachusetts Handicap plus in 1985 won the Grade I Hopeful Stakes with Papal Power.

Charles Peoples died in 1999 at the age of seventy-five.

References

• 1959 Kentucky Derby
• New York Times April 9, 1989 article

Persondata
Name	Peoples, Charles
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	February 3, 1924
Place of birth	United States
Date of death	September 17, 1999
Place of death