Vincent Timphony, the former trainer who won the first Breeders’ Cup
Classic with Wild Again in 1984, died on Monday, his former wife,
Scarlet, said.
Timphony was 76. He was removed from life support
at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, adjacent to Santa Anita, on Saturday
after suffering a series of strokes, Scarlet Timphony said.
Born
and raised in New Orleans, Vincent Timphony had his last starter in
2002. He had runners who placed in stakes at Fairplex Park and Turf
Paradise in the late 1990s.
In recent years, Vincent Timphony
frequently visited Santa Anita in the mornings, spending training hours
with friends at Clocker’s Corner. “The horses were in his blood,”
Scarlet Timphony said...
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