{{short description|Canadian horse trainer}} {{Infobox horseracing personality |name = Barry Littlefield |image = |caption = |occupation = [[Horse trainer|Trainer]] |birth_place = [[Preakness, New Jersey|Preakness]], [[New Jersey]], U.S. |birth_date = June 16, 1871 |death_date = June 14, 1936 (aged 64) |career wins = Not found |race = [[Fall Handicap]] (1901)<br>[[Autumn Maiden Stakes]] (1902)<br>[[Autumn Stakes (Canada)|Autumn Stakes]]<br>(1908, 1909)<br>[[Coronation Futurity Stakes]]<br>(1904, 1906, 1908, 1916, 1917)<br>[[Durham Cup Stakes]]<br>(1906, 1908, 1909, 1910)<br>[[King Edward Breeders' Cup Stakes|King Edward Gold Cup]]<br>(1906, 1907, 1908)<br>{{pb}}'''[[Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing|Canadian Classic Race wins]]''':<br>[[King's Plate]]<br>(1905, 1906, 1908, 1916, 1917)<br>[[Breeders' Stakes]]<br>(1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1916) |awards = |honours = [[Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]] (2000) |horses = [[Belle Mahone]], [[Inferno (horse)|Inferno]], [[Mandarin (horse)|Mandarin]],<br>[[Seismic (horse)|Seismic]], [[Slaughter (horse)|Slaughter]] |updated = February 28, 2007 }} '''Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield''' (June 16, 1871 &ndash; June 14, 1936) was an [[United States|American-born]] [[Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]] [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse trainer|racehorse trainer]].

From a Canadian mother, he was born in [[Preakness, New Jersey|Preakness]] in what is now [[Wayne, New Jersey|Wayne]], [[New Jersey]], where his American father [[Charles S. Littlefield|Charles Stuart Littlefield]] (1833–1915), was employed by [[Milton H. Sanford|Milton Holbrook Sanford's]] [[Preakness Stud|Preakness Stables]]. His father worked as a [[jockey]] in [[Toronto]] and is also an inductee of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame who won the first ever edition of the [[Queen's Plate]] in 1860 and again in 1862 and as a trainer, won the [[1885 Preakness Stakes]]. His brother, [[Fred Littlefield]], was a [[jockey]] who won the [[1888 Preakness Stakes]]. Nicknamed Barry, his father named him after a close friend, [[Barak G. Thomas|Major Barak G. Thomas]], a lawyer and [[American Civil War]] officer who established [[Dixiana Farm]] in [[Lexington, Kentucky]] in 1887 where he bred such horses as [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|United States Racing Hall of Fame]] inductee [[Dominio (horse)|Domino]] and owned the 1893 [[Leading sire in North America]], [[Himyar (horse)|Himyar]].

Between 1902 and 1917, Barry Littlefield trained for the highly successful racing stable owned by the [[Waterloo, Ontario]] [[distillation|distilling]] magnate, [[Joseph E. Seagram]]. Littlefield was a multiple winner of every top Canadian [[flat racing|flat race]] of his era including five editions of the country's most prestigious event, the [[King's Plate]] (Queen's Plate).

After retiring from racing, Barry Littlefield returned to be near family members in his native New Jersey where he died in 1936. In 2000, he was inducted into the [[Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame]].

==References== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070204130950/http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/trainers/2000/Barry_Littlefield.asp Barry Littlefield at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame] * [[Louis E. Cauz|Cauz, Louis E.]] ''The Plate''. (1984) [[Deneau Publishers]] {{ISBN|0-88879-104-6}}

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