Birthdate - April 21, 1929
Website - allenjerkens.com
NATIONAL/ECLIPSE CHAMPION
Sky Beauty: Top Older Female (1994)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
* Elected to Hall of Fame in 1975 at age 45, then the youngest trainer to be so honored.
* Eclipse winner as Top Trainer in 1973.
* In 2010, the coveted training title at Saratoga was named in honor of Jerkens.
* Trained Sky Beauty to victory in New York’s Triple Tiara for fillies in 1993; in 1994 she won the Eclipse as Top Older Female.
* Upset both eventual Horse of the Year Skip Away and Gentlemen with 34-1 Wagon Limit in the 1998 Jockey Club Gold Cup.
* Upset Secretariat twice in 1973 - in the Whitney Handicap with Onion and in the Woodward Handicap with Prove Out.
* Upset Buckpasser in the 1967 Brooklyn Handicap with Handsome Boy.
* Upset Kelso three times with Beau Purple - in the 1962 Suburban Handicap, the 1962 Man o’ War and the 1963 Widener Handicap.
NOTABLE STAKES WINS
Beau Purple: Widener (1963); Brooklyn (1962); Man o’ War (1962); Suburban (1962)
Believe the Queen: True North (1984); Tom Fool (1984); Monmouth H. (1984)
Caress: Just a Game (1995-96); Athenia (1995); Poker (1995); Beaugay (1995)
Classy Mirage: Genuine Risk (1995); Gallant Bloom (1995); Ballerina (1995); Honorable Miss (1994); Bed o’ Roses (1994); Distaff (1994); Prioress (1993)
Devil His Due: Suburban (1993-94); Brooklyn (1994); Pimlico Special (1993); Excelsior (1993); Gulfstream Park H. (1993); Wood Memorial (1992); Gotham (1992)
Foil: Genuine Risk (1999); Garland of Roses (1998)
Handsome Boy: Haskell (1967); Brooklyn (1967)
Kelly Kip: Bold Ruler (1998-99); A Phenomenon (1998); Sanford (1996); Tremont (1996)
Miss Shop: Personal Ensign (2007); Turnback the Alarm (2006)
November Snow: Test (1992); Alabama (1992); Rare Perfume (1992)
Onion: Whitney (1973)
Passing Shot: Bed o’ Roses (2004); Personal Ensign (2003)
Poker Night: Interborough (1974); Hempstead (1974); Top Flight (1973); Bed o’ Roses (1973)
Political Force: Suburban (2007)
Prove Out: Jockey Club Gold Cup (1973); Woodward (1973)
Puzzlement: Saratoga BC (2003)
Shine Again: Genuine Risk (2003); First Flight (2001-02); Ballerina (2001-02)
Sky Beauty: Vagrancy (1994-95); Ruffian (1994); Go for Wand (1994); Hempstead (1994); Shuvee (1994); Rare Perfume (1993); Alabama (1993); Coaching Club American Oaks (1993); Mother Goose (1993); Acorn (1993); Matron (1992); Adirondack (1992)
Society Selection: Shuvee (2005, 2007); Alabama (2004); Test (2004); Comely (2004); Frizette (2003)
Spite the Devil: Empire Classic (2004-05); Evan Shipman (2004); Withers (2003)
Swap Fliparoo: Test (2006)
Tunex: Metropolitan H. (1971)
Virginia Rapids: Westchester (1994); Carter (1994); Tom Fool (1994); Peter Pan (1993)
Wagon Limit: Jockey Club Gold Cup (1998); Westchester (1998)
War Front: Alfred G. Vanderbilt (2006)