Hall of Fame

 



worthy boy

Year of Birth: 
1940
Immortal: 
Yes
Elected as Immortal: 
1971
Year of Death: 
1969
Gait: 
Trotter
Record: 
t,3,2:02 1/2
Earnings: 
$25,688
Sire: 
Volomite
Dam: 
Warwell Worthy
Sire of Dam: 
Peter The Brewer
Biography: 

Worthy Boy, a son of Volomite and Warwell Worthy, was owned by Henry Warwick. He was a prepotent sire, with more than sixty of his sons and daughters producing in excess of 400 racehorses. The world champion trotter Nevele Pride 1:54.4 and Lindy's Pride, both winners of the Hambletonian Stake, are his grandsons by Star's Pride, 1:57 1/5. When Worthy Boy died at Castleton Farm in 1969, he was twenty-nine years old.

 Unmarked - Castleton Farm, Lexington, KY

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