Hall of Fame

 



margaret castleton

Year of Birth: 
1933
Immortal: 
Yes
Elected as Immortal: 
1974
Year of Death: 
1960
Gait: 
Trotter
Record: 
t,4,T1:59 1/4
Sire: 
Guy Castleton
Dam: 
Margaret Parrish
Sire of Dam: 
Vice Commodore
Biography: 

By Guy Castleton-Margaret Parrish, Margaret Castleton took her mark as a four-year-old in 1937. She was subsequently retired, and became known as the "grand matriarch" of Walnut Hall Farm. Eight of her foals took records, including three in 2:00 or less. By 1960 four of her daughters were credited with three in 2:00, eight in 2:05 and twenty in 2:10. When she died in 1960, Margaret Castleton was twenty-seven years old.

 Walnut Hall Farm, Lexington, KY

Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals