Andrew J. Crevolin
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Andrew Joseph Crevolin was an American businessman and Thoroughbred
racehorse
owner in California
whose horse won the 1954 Santa Anita
and Kentucky Derby
s.
Crevolin attended Chaffey High School
in Ontario, California
but by the 1930s was living in Alhambra
where he was the exclusive Chrysler-Plymouth
factory dealer for the eastern and northern sectors of Los Angeles
. His prosperous automobile business led to investments in various enterprises including water resource companies, real estate, and horse racing.
In 1950, Andrew Crevolin was appointed a member of the Board of Directors
of the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
and would become Chairman of its Southern California Chapter's fund drive committee for expansion of the Sister Kenny Memorial Hospital in El Monte, California
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Andrew Crevolin was the owner of the San Dimas Water Company in San Dimas, California
where he owned a home and had substantial land holdings, some of which he would develop for residential housing. In December 1964 he was appointed a member at large for the First Supervisorial District on the Los Angeles Watershed Board. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/472493922.html?dids=472493922:472493922&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+20%2C+1964&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Area+Man+Appointed+to+Watershed+Board&pqatl=google
Divorced in February 1962 from his third wife, Jane Anne, http://www.loislaw.com/ogpc/login.htp?WSRet=12&dockey=9387140@CAAPP&OLDURL=/gpc/index.htp&OLDREFURL=http%3A//news.google.com/archivesearch%3Fq%3DCrevolin%252C%2Bdivorce%26scoring%3Da on September 24, 1966, Andrew Crevolin married Tony Award
-winning actress Dolores Gray. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840730,00.html. They made their home at his Oak Ridge Ranch near San Dimas in the East San Gabriel Valley
.
racing during the mid 1940s. In 1948 his filly, Flying Rhythm, http://www.pedigreequery.com/flying+rythm trained by future Hall of Fame
inductee Frank Childs, won the Hollywood Oaks. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/416040731.html?dids=416040731:416040731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+06%2C+1948&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=FLYING+RYTHM+WINS+OAKS%2C+PAYS+%24167.80&pqatl=google His next good runner was Be Fleet who was trained by George Mayberry. Be Fleet's 1951 wins included the San Juan Capistrano Handicap and a three-length win over the great Citation
in the Argonaut Handicap
. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/447845292.html?dids=447845292:447845292&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+31%2C+1951&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Be+Fleet+Triumphs%3B+Citation+Runs+2nd&pqatl=google In 1953, George Mayberry was followed as trainer of Crevolin's horses by another future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bill Molter
.
who set a new world record
for seven furlong
s in winning the 1954 Malibu Sequet Stakes
at Santa Anita Park
and equaled the world record for eight and a half furlongs in winning the 1954 Californian Stakes
at Hollywood Park Racetrack. In addition to setting new track records at Santa Anita and Hollywood Park, Imbros also twice equaled the Santa Anita Park track record for six furlongs plus he set two new track records for eight and nine furlongs at Bay Meadows Racetrack. That same year, Andrew Crevolin and Bill Molter enjoyed even greater success with three-year-old Determine. A very small colt, he was overlooked by most bidders at the 1952 Keeneland Summer Sale
and was purchased by Crevolin for just $12,000. Determine most notably won the 1954 Santa Anita Derby
and then on May 1 won the most prestigious race in the United States, the Kentucky Derby
. On the day that Determine won the Derby, Imbros won the William P. Kyne Handicap, making Andrew Crevolin the first person in the United States to ever win two $100,000 races on the same day. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60814F73C5C177B93C0A9178ED85F408585F9
In a tape-recorded interview with a reporter from the Blood-Horse
magazine that was published on August 14, 1954, Andrew Crevolin created a storm in the U.S. racing industry when he said, among other things, that his stable didn't always try to win with its young horses in their first few starts. Following hearings into the matter, and an apology from Crevolin, he was suspended in September of that year for conduct detrimental to racing http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SlkhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5IYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5256,480696&dq=andrew+j+crevolin&hl=en and banned through November 2. The ban meant that his horses missed important races. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7MYtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1IAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4265,4195393&dq=andrew+crevolin&hl=en http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/434815422.html?dids=434815422:434815422&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+02%2C+1954&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Crevolin+Returns+to+Horse+Racing&pqatl=google
Crevolin remained in racing for a several more years and in 1961 his trainer was Edward A. Neloy
who conditioned Mighty Fair to a win in the Ladies Handicap
at New York's
Aqueduct Racetrack
.
Andrew Crevolin was living in Pasadena, California
at the time of his passing in 1992. His son, Robert D. Crevolin (1944–2004), was a member of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for thirty-five years and owned and raced Thoroughbreds for several years.
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...
racehorse
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...
owner in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
whose horse won the 1954 Santa Anita
Santa Anita Derby
The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $1 million. Inaugurated in 1935, it is considered the most important West Coast stepping-stone to the Kentucky Derby...
and Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...
s.
Crevolin attended Chaffey High School
Chaffey High School
Chaffey High School is a public secondary school in Ontario, California. It is one of the eleven schools of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. The school rests on approximately , making it one of the largest high schools by area in California....
in Ontario, California
Ontario, California
Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California, United States, 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire region, it lies just east of the Los Angeles county line and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area...
but by the 1930s was living in Alhambra
Alhambra, California
Alhambra is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, which is approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. As of the 2010 census, the population was 83,089, down from 85,804 at the 2000 census. The city's...
where he was the exclusive Chrysler-Plymouth
Chrysler-Plymouth
Chrysler-Plymouth was a division of the Chrysler Corporation, an American automobile company founded by Walter P. Chrysler. The division sold cars with both Chrysler and Plymouth brand names...
factory dealer for the eastern and northern sectors of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
. His prosperous automobile business led to investments in various enterprises including water resource companies, real estate, and horse racing.
In 1950, Andrew Crevolin was appointed a member of the Board of Directors
Board of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
of the Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
The Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute, located at 28th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, is the leading rehabilitation provider in the region. The Institute is named after Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian woman trained in nursing — the title “Sister” is used in British countries to...
and would become Chairman of its Southern California Chapter's fund drive committee for expansion of the Sister Kenny Memorial Hospital in El Monte, California
El Monte, California
El Monte is a residential, industrial, and commercial city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte," and historically is known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail." As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 113,475,...
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Andrew Crevolin was the owner of the San Dimas Water Company in San Dimas, California
San Dimas, California
San Dimas is a city located in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 33,371. The city historically took its name from San Dismas Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains above the northern section of present day San Dimas...
where he owned a home and had substantial land holdings, some of which he would develop for residential housing. In December 1964 he was appointed a member at large for the First Supervisorial District on the Los Angeles Watershed Board. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/472493922.html?dids=472493922:472493922&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+20%2C+1964&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Area+Man+Appointed+to+Watershed+Board&pqatl=google
Divorced in February 1962 from his third wife, Jane Anne, http://www.loislaw.com/ogpc/login.htp?WSRet=12&dockey=9387140@CAAPP&OLDURL=/gpc/index.htp&OLDREFURL=http%3A//news.google.com/archivesearch%3Fq%3DCrevolin%252C%2Bdivorce%26scoring%3Da on September 24, 1966, Andrew Crevolin married Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-winning actress Dolores Gray. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,840730,00.html. They made their home at his Oak Ridge Ranch near San Dimas in the East San Gabriel Valley
San Gabriel Valley
The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, United States. It lies to the east of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and west of the Inland Empire. It derives its name from the San Gabriel River that flows...
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Thoroughbred racing
Andrew Crevolin became involved in the sport of ThoroughbredThoroughbred
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...
racing during the mid 1940s. In 1948 his filly, Flying Rhythm, http://www.pedigreequery.com/flying+rythm trained by future Hall of Fame
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...
inductee Frank Childs, won the Hollywood Oaks. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/416040731.html?dids=416040731:416040731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+06%2C+1948&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=FLYING+RYTHM+WINS+OAKS%2C+PAYS+%24167.80&pqatl=google His next good runner was Be Fleet who was trained by George Mayberry. Be Fleet's 1951 wins included the San Juan Capistrano Handicap and a three-length win over the great Citation
Citation (horse)
Citation was the eighth American Triple Crown winner, and one of three major North American Thoroughbreds to win at least 16 consecutive races in major stakes race competition...
in the Argonaut Handicap
Argonaut Handicap
The Argonaut Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run in 1940 at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. A one mile race on dirt, it was open to horses age three and older....
. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/447845292.html?dids=447845292:447845292&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=May+31%2C+1951&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Be+Fleet+Triumphs%3B+Citation+Runs+2nd&pqatl=google In 1953, George Mayberry was followed as trainer of Crevolin's horses by another future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Bill Molter
William Molter
William "Willie" Molter was an American Hall of Fame horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred racing.A native of Fredericksburg, Texas, Willie Molter began his career in horse racing as a jockey at racetracks across the Texas border in Mexico...
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Leading owner
Andrew Crevolin's next top horse was the multiple stakes winning four-year-old ImbrosImbros (horse)
Imbros was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who set or equaled six track records including a new world record for seven furlongs in winning the 1954 Malibu Sequet Stakes at Santa Anita Park and equaled the world record for a mile and a sixteenth in winning the 1954 Californian Stakes at...
who set a new world record
World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...
for seven furlong
Furlong
A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 220 yards, 660 feet, 40 rods, or 10 chains. The exact value of the furlong varies slightly among English-speaking countries....
s in winning the 1954 Malibu Sequet Stakes
Malibu Stakes
The Malibu Stakes is a race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses of either gender held each December at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California...
at Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Park is a thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States. It offers some of the prominent racing events in the United States during the winter and in spring. With its backdrop of the purple San Gabriel Mountains, it is considered by many as the world's most beautiful race...
and equaled the world record for eight and a half furlongs in winning the 1954 Californian Stakes
Californian Stakes
The Californian Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually during the second week of June at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. The Grade II event is open to horses age three and up willing to race one and one-eighth miles on the dirt...
at Hollywood Park Racetrack. In addition to setting new track records at Santa Anita and Hollywood Park, Imbros also twice equaled the Santa Anita Park track record for six furlongs plus he set two new track records for eight and nine furlongs at Bay Meadows Racetrack. That same year, Andrew Crevolin and Bill Molter enjoyed even greater success with three-year-old Determine. A very small colt, he was overlooked by most bidders at the 1952 Keeneland Summer Sale
Keeneland Sales
The Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene...
and was purchased by Crevolin for just $12,000. Determine most notably won the 1954 Santa Anita Derby
Santa Anita Derby
The Santa Anita Derby is an American Grade 1 thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds run each April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California and carries a purse of $1 million. Inaugurated in 1935, it is considered the most important West Coast stepping-stone to the Kentucky Derby...
and then on May 1 won the most prestigious race in the United States, the Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...
. On the day that Determine won the Derby, Imbros won the William P. Kyne Handicap, making Andrew Crevolin the first person in the United States to ever win two $100,000 races on the same day. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60814F73C5C177B93C0A9178ED85F408585F9
In a tape-recorded interview with a reporter from the Blood-Horse
The Blood-Horse magazine
The Blood-Horse is an international weekly news magazine about Thoroughbred horses, horse breeding, and horseracing. It was founded in 1916, the oldest continually published North American Thoroughbred magazine. The magazine is based in Lexington, Kentucky, the Horse Capital of the World...
magazine that was published on August 14, 1954, Andrew Crevolin created a storm in the U.S. racing industry when he said, among other things, that his stable didn't always try to win with its young horses in their first few starts. Following hearings into the matter, and an apology from Crevolin, he was suspended in September of that year for conduct detrimental to racing http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SlkhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5IYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5256,480696&dq=andrew+j+crevolin&hl=en and banned through November 2. The ban meant that his horses missed important races. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7MYtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1IAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4265,4195393&dq=andrew+crevolin&hl=en http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/434815422.html?dids=434815422:434815422&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+02%2C+1954&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Crevolin+Returns+to+Horse+Racing&pqatl=google
Crevolin remained in racing for a several more years and in 1961 his trainer was Edward A. Neloy
Edward A. Neloy
Edward Albert "Eddie" Neloy was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. At age fourteen, he began working at a racetrack then joined the United States Army during World War II...
who conditioned Mighty Fair to a win in the Ladies Handicap
Ladies Handicap
The Ladies Handicap is a historic American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies three years of age and older that is held annually at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. Inaugurated at the Jerome Park Racetrack in 1868, it is the oldest stakes race in the U.S. exclusively for fillies and mares...
at New York's
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
Aqueduct Racetrack
Aqueduct Racetrack
Aqueduct Racetrack is a thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Its racing meets usually are from late October/early November through April.-History:...
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Andrew Crevolin was living in Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...
at the time of his passing in 1992. His son, Robert D. Crevolin (1944–2004), was a member of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for thirty-five years and owned and raced Thoroughbreds for several years.