Bud Delp

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Bud Delp
Occupation:	Trainer
Birthplace:	Creswell, Maryland, USA
Birth date:	September 7, 1932
Death date:	December 29, 2006
Career wins:	3,674
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (1976 & 1994) Massachusetts Handicap (1976 & 2001) Kentucky Oaks (1977) Blue Grass Stakes (1979) Florida Derby (1979) Kentucky Derby (1979) Preakness Stakes (1979) Santa Anita Handicap (1980) Cigar Mile Handicap (1989) Woodward Stakes (1990) Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap (1991) Pimlico Special (2001)
Racing Awards
Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer (1980)
Honours
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame (2002)
Significant Horses
Spectacular Bid, Include
Infobox last updated on: January 27, 2007.

Grover Greer "Bud" Delp (September 7, 1932 - December 29, 2006) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best remembered for his conditioning of Hall of Fame colt, Spectacular Bid.

Bud Delp began his career as a Thoroughbred trainer in 1962 and in 1980 was voted the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer. Delp, along with John J. Tammaro, Jr., King T. Leatherbury and Richard E. Dutrow, Sr. were known as Maryland racing's "Big Four" who dominated racing in that state during the 1960s and '70s and who helped modernize flat racing training.

During his career, Bud Delp's horses won 3,674 races and earned purses totaling nearly $41 million. In 2002, an honor he said he was most proud of, Delp was inducted into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Born in Creswell, Delp remained a lifelong resident of Maryland and died there in 2006 at his home in Ellicott City.

[edit] References

• Bud Delp at the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
• Bud Delp's obituary at Bloodhorse.com
• Bud Delp's obituary at the Washington Post