Hal Price Headley (December 19, 1888 – March 22, 1962) was an American owner and breeder of

Thoroughbred The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are ...

racehorses and a founder of

Keeneland Keeneland Association, Inc. is an equine business based in Lexington, Kentucky. It includes two distinct divisions: the Keeneland Race Course, a Thoroughbred racing facility, and Keeneland Sales, a horse auction complex. It is also known for i ...

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 Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County. By population, it is the second-largest city in Kentucky and 57th-largest city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 28th-largest ...

as well as the 15,000-acre Pinebloom Plantation in

Baker County, Georgia Baker County is a county in Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,876. The county seat and only city is Newton. The county was created December 12, 1825 from the eastern portion of Early County by an act of the Georgia General ...

. Hal Price Headley was one of those profiled by racing historian

Edward L. Bowen Edward L. Bowen (born c. 1942 in West Virginia) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing historian and author and the president of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation, an institution involved in funding equine research. Biography Bowen gr ...

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 The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American Thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. In 1955, the museum moved to its current location on Union Av ...

as one of the " Pillars of the Turf". The honor is for those "who have made extraordinary contributions to Thoroughbred racing in a leadership or pioneering capacity at the highest national level."

References

External links

* Hal Price Headley 1888-1962 - Thoroughbred Park - Kentucky Historical Marker

{{DEFAULTSORT:Headley, Hal Price 1888 births 1962 deaths Princeton University alumni American racehorse owners and breeders American horse racing industry executives United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees Farmers from Kentucky Businesspeople from Lexington, Kentucky 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American businesspeople