Clyde Troutt was an American

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 trainer

Horse trainer

In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

 of Thoroughbred

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...

 racehorses. From Benton, Illinois

Benton, Illinois

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, on March 15, 1938 Troutt replaced Frank Hackett as one of the trainers of the prominent John and Fannie Hertz

John D. Hertz

John Daniel Hertz, Sr. was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and philanthropist.-Biography:...

 stable. For his own account, he claimed

Claiming race

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 Take Wing

Take Wing

Take Wing was an American Thoroughbred gelding racehorse claimed for $3,000 and who would then earn more than $160,000 for new owner Clyde Troutt and set a new North American record for a mile and three-sixteenths on turf....

 in early July of 1942 for $

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3,000 and who would then earn more than $160,000 and set a new North America

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n record for a mile and three-sixteenths on turf

Grass

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Triple Crown races

Among Troutt's other successful horses was Royal Bay Gem (b. 1950). The colt won five stakes races in 1953 including the Everglades Stakes

Everglades Stakes

The Everglades Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Hialeah Park in Hialeah, Florida. For three-year-old horses, the 1 1/8 mile race was run on dirt until 1994 when it was converted to a race on turf...

 and Jersey Stakes

Jersey Derby

The Jersey Derby is a $100,000 American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in late July/early August at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Since 1993 it has been raced on grass at a distance of 1 1/16 miles....

. After finishing fourth to half-brother Dark Star

Dark Star (horse)

Dark Star was an American thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1953 Kentucky Derby, in the process becoming the only horse ever to defeat Hall of Fame horse Native Dancer.Dark Star finished fifth in the Preakness Stakes...

 in the Kentucky Derby, he defeated Dark Star in the Preakness Prep before finishing third to Native Dancer

Native Dancer

Native Dancer , nicknamed the Grey Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished Thoroughbred racehorses in history, the first horse made famous through the medium of television. He was one of the best horses produced in USA after the war...

 in both the Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

  and Belmont Stakes

Belmont Stakes

The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...

. Troutt also trained Advocator who ran second to Kauai King

Kauai King

Kauai King was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was born on Pine Brook Farm in Maryland by the champion sire Native Dancer. In 1966 he won the first two legs of the U.S. Triple Crown races. To date Kauai King is one of only two horses born in the state of Maryland to cross the Kentucky Derby...

 in the 1966 Kentucky Derby.

In October of 1958 Clyde Troutt entered into his most successful arrangement when he siogned on as the head trainer for the racing stable Dan and Ada Rice, owners of Danada Farm in Wheaton

Wheaton, Illinois

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 in DuPage County, Illinois

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 and its satellite farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

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