Beach Towel was the 1990 Harness Horse of the Year

Harness Horse of the Year

The Harness Horse of the Year is an honor recognizing the top harness racing horse in the United States. The award is selected by the United States Trotting Association and the United States Harness Writers Association....

. The colt was trained and driven by Ray Remmen. Beach Towel won 18 of his 23 starts with a fastest race mile of 1:50, whilst earning $2,091,860. Over his career Beach Towel has claimed victories in the Little Brown Jug

Little Brown Jug (horse racing)

The Little Brown Jug is a harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbreds hosted by the Delaware County Agricultural Society since 1946 at the County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio. The race takes place every year on the third Thursday after Labor Day. Along with the Hambletonian, a race for...

, Breeders Crown

Breeders Crown

The Breeders Crown is an annual series of Harness races covering each of the sport's twelve traditional categories of age, gait and gender. The series was initiated by the Hambletonian Society, promoters of the Hambletonian Stakes, in 1984 to enhance the Standardbred breeding industry and to...

, Meadowlands Pace

Meadowlands Pace

The Meadowlands Pace is a harness race for three-year-old pacers, held at the Meadowlands Racetrack, New Jersey. It is the richest pacing race in the United States at $1 million.-Past Winners of the Meadowlands Pace:...

, Delvin Miller Adios

Adios (racehorse)

Adios was a champion harness racing sire.The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940 at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana. Trained and driven by Frank Ervin and for a while owned by Harry Warner of Warner Bros. film studio, Adios was a multiple...

 and many other races.

Beach Towel was also a successful sire. Amongst his offspring was Jenna's Beach Boy who once held the record for the fastest race mile of all-time in harness racing history. Another of his offspring was Somebeachsomewhere

Somebeachsomewhere

Somebeachsomewhere is a standardbred racehorse who was the equal fastest horse ever with a time of 1:46.4 and earned $3,221,299. In 2008 Somebeachsomewhere had the highest earnings by pacer in single season of $2.4 million...

, the 2008 Harness Horse of the Year.

In 2007 he went into retirement at the Woodlands Stud in New Zealand. He died on March 21, 2009 following a severe attack of colic

Horse colic

Colic in horses is defined as abdominal pain, but it is a clinical sign rather than a diagnosis. The term colic can encompass all forms of gastrointestinal conditions which cause pain as well as other causes of abdominal pain not involving the gastrointestinal tract. The most common forms of colic...

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