Head Play

Head Play
Head Play in the late 1930s
SireMy Play
GrandsireFair Play
DamRed Head
DamsireKing Gorin
SexStallion
Foaled1930
CountryUnited States
ColourChestnut (color)
BreederCol. Robert L. Baker
Owner1) Ruth Clark Crump
2) Suzanne Mason
Trainer1) Willie Crump
2) Thomas P. Hayes (1933)
3) J. Thomas Taylor (1934)
Record38: 14-5-5
Earnings$109,315
Major wins
Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes (1932)
Cincinnati Trophy Stakes (1932)
Derby Trial Stakes (1933)
Suburban Handicap (1935)
San Juan Capistrano Handicap (1935)
San Antonio Handicap (1935)
Bay Meadows Handicap (1935) U.S. Triple Crown wins:
Preakness Stakes (1933)
Kentucky Derby 2nd (1933)
Awards
American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (1933)
Last updated on June 14, 2018

Head Play (April 2, 1930 – December 11, 1954) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1933 Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series of races and as the horse on the losing end of the "Fighting Finish" of the 1933 Kentucky Derby.