Count Turf

Count Turf
SireCount Fleet
GrandsireReigh Count
DamDelmarie
DamsirePompey
SexStallion
Foaled1948
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederDr. & Mrs. Frank Porter Miller
OwnerJack Joseph Amiel
Trainer1) Sol Rutchick
2) William B. Finnegan
Record45: 8-4-6
Earnings$166,375
Major wins
Dover Stakes (1950)
Questionnaire Handicap (1953)
U.S. Triple Crown wins:
Kentucky Derby (1951)
Honours
Count Turf Drive, Louisville, Kentucky
Last updated on May 27, 2010

Count Turf (April 27, 1948 – October 18, 1966) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1951 Kentucky Derby. His grandsire Reigh Count won the 1928 Kentucky Derby and his sire Count Fleet won the 1943 Kentucky Derby and went on to win the Triple Crown. The only other father/son/grandson combination to win the Kentucky Derby was Pensive, Ponder, and Needles.