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Longden operated a racing stable under the name Alberta Ranches Ltd. in partnership with Frank McMahon, Wilder H. Ripley and Max Bell, longtime friends from Alberta. On January 28, 1971, Longden's wife Hazel became the first woman to train a stakes winner at Santa Anita Park when her horse Diplomatic Agent won the San Vicente Stakes.
Alberta Ranches, Ltd. was a Thoroughbred horse racing partnership between U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey and Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Johnny Longden, his son Vance, and businessmen and Frank McMahon, Wilder H. Ripley, and Max Bell. The three men were all longtime friends from the Province of Alberta in Canada. The partnership was formed ...
Four-and-Twenty was bred and raced by the Alberta Ranches, Ltd. partnership of Max Bell, Frank McMahon and superstar jockey Johnny Longden and his son, Vance. He was sired by a son of the two-time Leading sire in North America, Princequillo. His dam was Sixpence, a good runner in England and Ireland voted the 1953 British Champion Two-Year-Old ...
Vance Longden (March 14, 1930 – January 7, 2003) was an American Thoroughbred horse trainer based in California. Vance Longden was the son of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Longden and his first wife, Helen. He was raised around horses and apprenticed with trainer William Molter. At age twenty-three, Vance Longden was training on his ...
Established in 1940, the organization's founding members consisted of many of the leading jockeys of the day including Eddie Arcaro, Carroll Bierman, Charley Kurtsinger, Johnny Longden, Don Meade, Maurice Peters, Red Pollard, Sam Renick, Harry Richards, Alfred Robertson, and Ray Workman. The Jockeys' Guild founding board was made up of:
Johnny Longden: Vance Longden: Alberta Ranches, Ltd. 8th 1A Flutterby Henry Moreno: Vance Longden Alberta Ranches, Ltd. 9th 5 Loyal Son Lawrence Hansman Thomas H. Stevens Eastwood Stable 10th 4 On His Metal Douglas Dodson: Chester F. Bowles J. Graham Brown 11th 9 Light Talk Robert Nono Steve Ippolito Jacnot Stable 12th 7 Ambiopoise Bobby Ussery
Johnny Longden: Vance Longden: Alberta Ranches, Ltd. 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles 1:48.60 $56,550 [80] 1952 § Admiral Drake 4 Gordon Glisson: William F. Alvarado Abraham Hirschberg 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles 1:48.20 $56,000 [81] 1951 § Citation: 6 Steve Brooks: Horace A. Jones: Calumet Farm: 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles 1:48.40 $56,250 [82] 1950 Noor: 5 Johnny Longden ...
The Strub Stakes is an American race for thoroughbred horses run at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, each year. [1]Currently a Grade II stakes race with a purse of $200,000, it is for four-year-olds, at one and one-eighth miles on Santa Anita Park's dirt track.