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