He was trained by George P. Odom until mid 1962, when H. Allen Jerkens, a 1975 inductee into the U.S.
Beau Purple was the first horse ever bred by Hobeau Farm of Wall Street mutual-fund developer Jack Dreyfus.
Triple Crown series and severely limited his racing for nearly two years.
Among his major wins, Beau Purple set a new track record at Belmont Park for the 1+1⁄2 miles distance in defeating Kelso in the 1962 Man o' War Stakes,[2] and he twice broke the track record for a mile and a quarter on dirt at Aqueduct Racetrack[3] in winning both the 1962 Suburban Handicap and Brooklyn Handicap.
In February 1963, Beau Purple beat Kelso for the third time, making it three of four wins over Kelso in his career, when he won the Widener Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track in Florida.