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Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to be Held August 5

The National Museum of Racing will induct the 2022 Hall of Fame class Friday, Aug. 5 at Fasig-Tipton. The event is slated to begin at 10:30 a.m. Tom Durkin will serve as the master of ceremonies. The event is open to the public and free to attend. The ceremony will also be broadcast live on the Museum website at racingmuseum.org. A stellar class of inductees comprises the 2022 ceremony, namely four-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder (Henny Hughes); Hillsdale (Take Away), who is also the first Indiana-bred in the Hall of Fame; 1984 Eclipse Turf Female Champion Royal Heroine (Ire); and G1 Queen Anne S. conqueror, two-time Eclipse Award winner Tepin (Bernstein). Trainer Oscar White is the sole human inductee along with Pillars of the Turf James Cox Brady, Marshall Cassidy, and James Ben Ali Haggin.

Several current Hall of Famers will take part in a special autograph signing at the Museum on Saturday, Aug. 6 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The following members are scheduled to participate (subject to change): Braulio Baeza, Mark Casse, Ramon Dominguez, Janet Elliot, Earlie Fires, Sandy Hawley, Richard Mandella, Jose Santos, Gary Stevens, and Nick Zito. For $25, fans will receive a commemorative 2022 Hall of Fame induction weekend poster for the members to sign. There will only be 100 posters for this event and they are available on a first-come, first served basis. Admission to the Museum will be free from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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2022 HOF Class Headed by Beholder, Tepin

Eight new members have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, including Eclipse Award winners Beholder (Henny Hughes) and Tepin (Bernstein) in the contemporary category, both chosen in their first year of eligibility. The other members of the class of 2022 are divisional stalwarts Hillsdale (Take Away) and Royal Heroine (Ire) (Lypheor {GB}) and, via the Historic Review Committee, Classic-winning trainer Oscar White.

Among the Pillars of the Turf, owner/breeding/official James Cox Brady, track announcer and official Marshall Cassidy and renowned owner/breeder James Ben Ali Haggin will also be honored.

The new inductees will be honored 10:30a.m. Friday, Aug. 5 at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The ceremony will be broadcast live on the Museum website at www.racingmuseum.org. The event is open to the public and free to attend.

Beholder, a winner of three Breeders' Cup races for trainer Richard Mandella, earned four Eclipse title–2-year-old (2012), 3-year-old (2013) and Older Female (2015-16). The winner off 11 Grade Is, the Spendthrift Farm runner retired with 18 wins from 26 lifetimes starts and earnings of $6,156,600.

The Eclipse earning turf mare in 2015 and 2016, Robert Masterson's Tepin won 11 graded/group races, including winning efforts facing males in the G1 Queen Anne S. at Royal Ascot and the GI Woodbine Mile. The winner of 13 races from 23 starts, the Mark Casse trainer retired with over $4.4 million in earnings.

Indiana-bred Hillsdale enjoyed his best season at four in 1959, winning 10 of 13 starts, including the San Carlos S., San Fernanado S., Californian, Hollywood Gold Cup and American H. A winner of 16 stakes at 11 different tracks, the Martin Fallon Jr. trainee retired with in excess of $600,000 in earnings (ranking him in 13th all-time at that time).

Campaigned by Robert Sangster in the U.S., England and France, Royal Heroine won 10 (eight stakes) of 21 career starts for earnings over $1.2 million. Among her chief victories in Europe for Sir Michael Stoute are the Prix de l'Opera at the Princess Margaret S. at Royal Ascot. In the U.S., she added wins in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile, GI Hollywood Derby, and GI Matriarch S. while under the care of John Gosden.

Representing the human inductees, Oliver White, who trained exclusively for the Jeffords family, won 706 races, including 104 stakes. Included among his top runners, Horse of the Year One Count, Ch. 2-year-old and Classic winner Pavot and Ch. 3-year-old Filly Kiss Me Kate.

Chairman of NYRA for eight years during the 60s, James Cox Brady also enjoyed success as an owner, campaigning the likes of champion War Plumage and graded stakes winners Casemate, Secret Meeting, Landlocked and Artismo. From 1938 through 1970, Brady's horses won 234 races with earnings on over $2 million. He also served as a steward and vice chairman of The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Racing Association. Additionally, he was one of the original directors of NYRA and a founding director of the Monmouth Park Jockey Club.

An exercise rider of flat and steeplechasers in his youth, Marshall Cassidy is credited with devising the modern stall-style starting gate, improving the photo-finish camera system, inventing the electric timer and introducing saliva testing and pre-race veterinary exams. He also served as director of racing for NYRA from 1963 through 1968 in addition to a position as executive secretary of The Jockey Club.

Attorney and rancher James Ben Ali Haggin made his fortune investing in mining, making him one of the wealthiest individuals in the country at the time. Establishing a breeding center on Rancho del Paso near Sacramento in 1873, he was responsible for Hall of Famers Firenze and Salvator. Establishing a stable in the east in the mid 1880s and later purchasing Elmendorf Farm in Kentucky in 1897, Haggin also campaigned Classic winners Ben Ali and Tyrant. He is also credited with the purchase of Hall of Famer Miss Woodford, in addition to having bred top horses including Africander, Sir Walter, Tournament, Waterboy and Tradition.

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Tommy Barrow, 88, Passes; Rode Handicap Star Hillsdale To Major Wins In 1959

Jockey Tommy Barrow, best known for his handling of multiple stakes winner Hillsdale in the late 1950s, died Nov. 18 in Louisville, Ky., at the age of 88.

Barrow rode the Detroit and New England circuits until owner Clarence Smith and trainer Marty Fallon gave him an opportunity to ride Hillsdale, an Indiana-bred purchased by Smith while the horse was in training at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, according to Whitney Tower in Sports Illustrated.Tower described Barrow as a “five-foot 6 1/2-inch stringbean.”

Barrow made the most of it, riding against top jockeys like Eddie Arcaro and Bill Shoemaker and winning big races aboard the son of Take Away, including a sweep of what became known as Santa Anita's Strub Series (the Malibu, San Fernando and Santa Anita Maturity – the latter race, which became the Charles H. Strub Stakes, was Barrow's first “hundred-grander.” They also teamed up to win the Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park, then headed east for an eventual match with top 3-year-old Sword Dancer and reigning champion handicap horse Round Table in the Woodward at Aqueduct.

Coming into the stretch of the Woodward, Hillsdale held a narrow advantage over Round Table and Barrow allowed his horse to drift off the rail a bit, thinking Arcaro and Sword Dancer would have to go wider still. But Arcaro waited until there was a narrow opening along the rail and pushed Sword Dancer through, going on to a hard-fought win over Hillsdale in what would be his final race. The defeat denied Hillsdale championship honors that year and he retired with earnings of nearly $650,000.

Born Thomas Gorie Barrow on Aug. 19, 1932, in Orlando, Fla., and raised on a farm in nearby Arcadia, Barrow rode Quarter Horses as a boy until someone introduced him to Thoroughbreds. He left home for the racetrack at 15, according to Marty McGee writing in Daily Racing Form, and won with his first mount on Sept. 21, 1948, at defunct Lincoln Downs in Rhode Island. Over the years he won riding titles at Churchill Downs in Kentucky, Rockingham Park in New Hampshire, Detroit Race Course and Hazel Park in Michigan and Gulfstream Park in Florida.

Barrow rode into his late 50s, primarily in the Midwest and New England, but never had the opportunity to ride another horse like Hillsdale, retiring in 1991 with 2,627 victories from 21,061 mounts, according to Equibase.

Barrow had resided in an assisted living facility for several years in Louisville, Ky.

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