Parents: Arthur B Hancock I & Nancy Clay
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Times-Picayune
New Orleans, LA
Friday, September 15, 1972
"BULL" HANCOCK, JR, OWNER OF CLAIBORNE FARMS, DIES AT AGE 62
Breeder Was the Biggest
Carried on Thoroughbred Tradition of Father
Nashville, Tenn., (AP) -- A B :Bull" Hancock, Jr of Paris, KY., owner of Claiborne Farm, the worlds largest breeder of thoroughbred race horses, died Thursday at Vanderbilt University Hospital.
Hancock, who was 62, had been one of the leading horse breeders in the nation throughout his adult life, carrying on a tradition established by his father, Arthur B Hancock, Sr, who founded Claiborne Farm in 1910. The elder Hancock headed the list of the nation's leading breeders for a number of years.
The younger Hancock became ill last month while on a hunting trip to Scotland and underwent surgery Aug 28 at Vanderbilt Hospital.
Claiborne Farms covers 4,700 acres of the rolling Bluegrass land near Paris.
The farm keeps between three and seven people employed to repair fences and a plumber, electrician and carpenter are also on the payroll.
Hancock, breaking with family tradition, began racing his own horses in addition to breeding horses for other owners. However, no horse either carrying Claiborne's orange silks or foaled on the farm ever made it to the winner's circle of the Kentucky Derby, the nation's premier horse race.
In recent years, Hancock also bought Marchmont another of the county's top thoroughbred horse farms. He paid $859,422 for the 1,067 acres of land near Paris.
Arthur Boyd Hancock, Jr picked up his nickname of "Bull" while a football player at Woodbury Forrest school in Virginia. He was a 1933 graduate of Princeton.
Two of his colts ran in the Kentucky Derby. Dike finished third in 1969 and Dunce was seventh in 1959.
When a business conglomerate, National Industries, made a bid in 1969 to buy control of the track where the Derby is run annually, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Hancock and other prominent horsemen felt the race would suffer in prestige if run by a business firm.
The group formed the Kentucky Derby Protection Group, which outbid National Industries, buying up 128,511 shares of stock in Churchill Downs for $4.5 million.
Hancock is survived by his widow and four children.
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Times-Picayune
New Orleans, LA
Friday, September 15, 1972
"BULL" HANCOCK, JR, OWNER OF CLAIBORNE FARMS, DIES AT AGE 62
Breeder Was the Biggest
Carried on Thoroughbred Tradition of Father
Nashville, Tenn., (AP) -- A B :Bull" Hancock, Jr of Paris, KY., owner of Claiborne Farm, the worlds largest breeder of thoroughbred race horses, died Thursday at Vanderbilt University Hospital.
Hancock, who was 62, had been one of the leading horse breeders in the nation throughout his adult life, carrying on a tradition established by his father, Arthur B Hancock, Sr, who founded Claiborne Farm in 1910. The elder Hancock headed the list of the nation's leading breeders for a number of years.
The younger Hancock became ill last month while on a hunting trip to Scotland and underwent surgery Aug 28 at Vanderbilt Hospital.
Claiborne Farms covers 4,700 acres of the rolling Bluegrass land near Paris.
The farm keeps between three and seven people employed to repair fences and a plumber, electrician and carpenter are also on the payroll.
Hancock, breaking with family tradition, began racing his own horses in addition to breeding horses for other owners. However, no horse either carrying Claiborne's orange silks or foaled on the farm ever made it to the winner's circle of the Kentucky Derby, the nation's premier horse race.
In recent years, Hancock also bought Marchmont another of the county's top thoroughbred horse farms. He paid $859,422 for the 1,067 acres of land near Paris.
Arthur Boyd Hancock, Jr picked up his nickname of "Bull" while a football player at Woodbury Forrest school in Virginia. He was a 1933 graduate of Princeton.
Two of his colts ran in the Kentucky Derby. Dike finished third in 1969 and Dunce was seventh in 1959.
When a business conglomerate, National Industries, made a bid in 1969 to buy control of the track where the Derby is run annually, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Hancock and other prominent horsemen felt the race would suffer in prestige if run by a business firm.
The group formed the Kentucky Derby Protection Group, which outbid National Industries, buying up 128,511 shares of stock in Churchill Downs for $4.5 million.
Hancock is survived by his widow and four children.
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Parents: Arthur B Hancock I & Nancy Clay
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Times-Picayune
New Orleans, LA
Friday, September 15, 1972
"BULL" HANCOCK, JR, OWNER OF CLAIBORNE FARMS, DIES AT AGE 62
Breeder Was the Biggest
Carried on Thoroughbred Tradition of Father
Nashville, Tenn., (AP) -- A B :Bull" Hancock, Jr of Paris, KY., owner of Claiborne Farm, the worlds largest breeder of thoroughbred race horses, died Thursday at Vanderbilt University Hospital.
Hancock, who was 62, had been one of the leading horse breeders in the nation throughout his adult life, carrying on a tradition established by his father, Arthur B Hancock, Sr, who founded Claiborne Farm in 1910. The elder Hancock headed the list of the nation's leading breeders for a number of years.
The younger Hancock became ill last month while on a hunting trip to Scotland and underwent surgery Aug 28 at Vanderbilt Hospital.
Claiborne Farms covers 4,700 acres of the rolling Bluegrass land near Paris.
The farm keeps between three and seven people employed to repair fences and a plumber, electrician and carpenter are also on the payroll.
Hancock, breaking with family tradition, began racing his own horses in addition to breeding horses for other owners. However, no horse either carrying Claiborne's orange silks or foaled on the farm ever made it to the winner's circle of the Kentucky Derby, the nation's premier horse race.
In recent years, Hancock also bought Marchmont another of the county's top thoroughbred horse farms. He paid $859,422 for the 1,067 acres of land near Paris.
Arthur Boyd Hancock, Jr picked up his nickname of "Bull" while a football player at Woodbury Forrest school in Virginia. He was a 1933 graduate of Princeton.
Two of his colts ran in the Kentucky Derby. Dike finished third in 1969 and Dunce was seventh in 1959.
When a business conglomerate, National Industries, made a bid in 1969 to buy control of the track where the Derby is run annually, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Hancock and other prominent horsemen felt the race would suffer in prestige if run by a business firm.
The group formed the Kentucky Derby Protection Group, which outbid National Industries, buying up 128,511 shares of stock in Churchill Downs for $4.5 million.
Hancock is survived by his widow and four children.
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Times-Picayune
New Orleans, LA
Friday, September 15, 1972
"BULL" HANCOCK, JR, OWNER OF CLAIBORNE FARMS, DIES AT AGE 62
Breeder Was the Biggest
Carried on Thoroughbred Tradition of Father
Nashville, Tenn., (AP) -- A B :Bull" Hancock, Jr of Paris, KY., owner of Claiborne Farm, the worlds largest breeder of thoroughbred race horses, died Thursday at Vanderbilt University Hospital.
Hancock, who was 62, had been one of the leading horse breeders in the nation throughout his adult life, carrying on a tradition established by his father, Arthur B Hancock, Sr, who founded Claiborne Farm in 1910. The elder Hancock headed the list of the nation's leading breeders for a number of years.
The younger Hancock became ill last month while on a hunting trip to Scotland and underwent surgery Aug 28 at Vanderbilt Hospital.
Claiborne Farms covers 4,700 acres of the rolling Bluegrass land near Paris.
The farm keeps between three and seven people employed to repair fences and a plumber, electrician and carpenter are also on the payroll.
Hancock, breaking with family tradition, began racing his own horses in addition to breeding horses for other owners. However, no horse either carrying Claiborne's orange silks or foaled on the farm ever made it to the winner's circle of the Kentucky Derby, the nation's premier horse race.
In recent years, Hancock also bought Marchmont another of the county's top thoroughbred horse farms. He paid $859,422 for the 1,067 acres of land near Paris.
Arthur Boyd Hancock, Jr picked up his nickname of "Bull" while a football player at Woodbury Forrest school in Virginia. He was a 1933 graduate of Princeton.
Two of his colts ran in the Kentucky Derby. Dike finished third in 1969 and Dunce was seventh in 1959.
When a business conglomerate, National Industries, made a bid in 1969 to buy control of the track where the Derby is run annually, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Hancock and other prominent horsemen felt the race would suffer in prestige if run by a business firm.
The group formed the Kentucky Derby Protection Group, which outbid National Industries, buying up 128,511 shares of stock in Churchill Downs for $4.5 million.
Hancock is survived by his widow and four children.
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