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Look Who's Talking about Texas History
Davick Services recommends the Facebook Group "West
Texas History & Memories" for history, famous people, old photos,
stories, unclaimed estates and genealogy of the Western Half of Texas . . .
Check it out and join the conversation
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Famous People from Hale County Texas |
Carl Nafzger
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| Born in Plainview, Texas on August 29, 1941, he
grew up in Olton. Nafzger is a Hall of Fame horse trainer and Champion Rodeo
Bull rider and has been inducted
into Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame,
he National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame and Professional Bull
Riders Heroes and Legends Celebration Ring of Honor. He is the only
inductee in racing's Hall of Fame who is also a member of the Texas
Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Professional Bull Riders’ Ring of Honor.
Nafzger trained Unbridled who won the 1990 Kentucky
Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic. In 1990 he was voted the Eclipse
Award for Outstanding Trainer and the Big Sport of Turfdom Award. In
1994, he wrote a book on the training of Thoroughbred horses titled
Traits Of A Winner that was published by R. Meerdink Co. (ISBN
978-0929346328).
In 1998, Nafzger trained Banshee Breeze who won that year's Eclipse
Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Filly. In 2006 he was back in the
national spotlight as the trainer of the colt Street Sense who won
the 2006 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and the 2007 Kentucky Derby. In the
late 2000s and early 2010s, Nafzger moved into semi-retirement,
training only for two clients: James B. Tafel, owner of Street
Sense, and Bentley Smith. Smith's first wife (who died in 1999) was
the daughter of Unbridled's owner, Frances A. Genter, and ran the
Genter stable before its dissolution. |
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