Hall of Fame

 



proximity

Year of Birth: 
1942
Immortal: 
Yes
Elected as Immortal: 
1975
Year of Death: 
1966
Gait: 
Trotter
Record: 
t,T1:59.3
Earnings: 
$252,929
Sire: 
Protector
Dam: 
Agnes Worthy
Sire of Dam: 
Favonian
Biography: 

Proximity was one of the greatest free-for-allers in trotting history, earning over a quarter-million dollars for Ralph and Gordon Verhurst of Rochester, New York. When she retired in 1950, the daughter of Protector-Agnes Worthy was the leading money-winning Standardbred, regardless of sex or gait. Proximity died at Castleton Farm at the age of twenty-four in 1966, the dam of five in 2:10 or better.

 Unmarked - Castleton Farm, Lexington, KY

Published in the Harness Racing Museum's 1994 book, The Immortals