SOUTH CAROLINA RESIDENT EDDIE MAPLE ELECTED TO HALL OF FAME

Eddie Maple can add Hall of Fame rider to the list of his many achievements in the horse business.  Maple is now serving as the general manager at the Rose Hill Plantation Equestrian Boarding and Teaching Center in Bluffton, South Carolina.

Maple won 4,398 races including two Belmont Stakes in his 34-year career.  His two Belmont wins were aboard Temperence Hill in 1980 and Crème Fraiche in 1985.  He also won the Wood Memorial, the Florida Derby, the Arlinton Million, the Kentucky Oaks, and twice won the Travers stakes.  However, Maple may best be remembered as the last man to ride (and win) Secretariat in the Canadian International at Woodbine Racetrack.  Freelance writer Charlie Bennett quotes Maple, “Most people down here in South Carolina don’t know Eddie Maple. But everyone knows Secretariat.  I rode some great horses, but Secretariat probably could have pulled a milk wagon and beaten them all.”

The Hall of Fame induction will be August 14th in Saratoga.  Also inducted then will be trainers Bob Baffert and Janet Elliot.