Scott Paul Harlan (February 4, 1864 - January 1, 1948) was an American National Champion

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trainer and owner of Idle Dell Farm near

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Career

During his career Scott Harlan trained for preeminent owners Walter Jeffords and the

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. For Whitney he trained

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to a performance in 1923 that saw her being named retrospectively as the

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. Harlan had four other horses owned by Jeffords which would be voted National Champion honors. In 1926 horses trained by Scott Harlan earned $205,681 which was the most

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for any trainer in the United States. Among them,

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earned

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honors and

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was named the

. Scott Harlan's third and fourth National Champion came with

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chosen the 1928 American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly then in 1929

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. Scott Harlan had runners in five of the U.S. Triple Crown races with his best result a third in the

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with Walter M. Jeffords's colt

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. Among Harlan's notable wins was in the 1926

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with Edith Cavell. She was ridden by the talented but ill-fated young jockey Ovila Bourassa who guided the filly to a three-length victory in track record time while beating a field of horses of either sex age three and older which included two future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductees, Crusader and

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. Scott Harlan died at age eighty-three on January 1, 1948. At the time of his death he had been living on his Idel Dell Farm in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harlan, Scott P. 1864 births 1948 deaths American horse trainers American Champion racehorse trainers People from Maury County, Tennessee Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania