# Barry Littlefield

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Canadian horse trainer

Barry Littlefield Personal information Born June 16, 1871 Preakness, New Jersey, U.S. Died June 14, 1936 (aged 64) Occupation Trainer Horse racing career Sport Horse racing Career wins Not found Major racing wins Fall Handicap (1901) Autumn Maiden Stakes (1902) Autumn Stakes (1908, 1909) Coronation Futurity Stakes (1904, 1906, 1908, 1916, 1917) Durham Cup Stakes (1906, 1908, 1909, 1910) King Edward Gold Cup (1906, 1907, 1908) Canadian Classic Race wins: King's Plate (1905, 1906, 1908, 1916, 1917) Breeders' Stakes (1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1916) Honours Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2000) Significant horses Belle Mahone, Inferno, Mandarin, Seismic, Slaughter Updated on February 28, 2007

**Barak Thomas "Barry" Littlefield** (June 16, 1871 – June 14, 1936) was an [American-born](/source/United_States) [Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame](/source/Canadian_Horse_Racing_Hall_of_Fame) [Thoroughbred](/source/Thoroughbred) [racehorse trainer](/source/Horse_trainer).

From a Canadian mother, he was born in [Preakness](/source/Preakness%2C_New_Jersey) in what is now [Wayne](/source/Wayne%2C_New_Jersey), [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey), where his American father [Charles Stuart Littlefield](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_S._Littlefield&action=edit&redlink=1) (1833–1915), was employed by [Milton Holbrook Sanford's](/source/Milton_H._Sanford) [Preakness Stables](/source/Preakness_Stud). His father worked as a [jockey](/source/Jockey) in [Toronto](/source/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](/source/Queen's_Plate) in 1860 and again in 1862 and as a trainer, won the [1885 Preakness Stakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1885_Preakness_Stakes&action=edit&redlink=1). His brother, [Fred Littlefield](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred_Littlefield&action=edit&redlink=1), was a [jockey](/source/Jockey) who won the [1888 Preakness Stakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1888_Preakness_Stakes&action=edit&redlink=1). Nicknamed Barry, his father named him after a close friend, [Major Barak G. Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barak_G._Thomas&action=edit&redlink=1), a lawyer and [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War) officer who established [Dixiana Farm](/source/Dixiana_Farm) in [Lexington, Kentucky](/source/Lexington%2C_Kentucky) in 1887 where he bred such horses as [United States Racing Hall of Fame](/source/National_Museum_of_Racing_and_Hall_of_Fame) inductee [Domino](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dominio_(horse)&action=edit&redlink=1) and owned the 1893 [Leading sire in North America](/source/Leading_sire_in_North_America), [Himyar](/source/Himyar_(horse)).

Between 1902 and 1917, Barry Littlefield trained for the highly successful racing stable owned by the [Waterloo, Ontario](/source/Waterloo%2C_Ontario) [distilling](/source/Distillation) magnate, [Joseph E. Seagram](/source/Joseph_E._Seagram). Littlefield was a multiple winner of every top Canadian [flat race](/source/Flat_racing) of his era including five editions of the country's most prestigious event, the [King's Plate](/source/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](/source/Canadian_Horse_Racing_Hall_of_Fame).

## References

- [Barry Littlefield at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame](https://web.archive.org/web/20070204130950/http://www.canadianhorseracinghalloffame.com/trainers/2000/Barry_Littlefield.asp)

- [Cauz, Louis E.](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louis_E._Cauz&action=edit&redlink=1) *The Plate*. (1984) [Deneau Publishers](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deneau_Publishers&action=edit&redlink=1) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-88879-104-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88879-104-6)

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