Handling the racing stable of Amsterdam, New York businessman, Herbert P. Gardner, in 1929 Clyde Van Dusen became the only trainer to ever win the Kentucky Derby with a horse named in their honor.
[1] Shortly after winning the Derby, Van Dusen went to work for Detroit auto body manufacturer, Charles T. Fisher, owner of Dixiana Farm.
Van Dusen trained Fisher's colt Sweep All who ran second to Horse of the Year and future Hall of Fame inductee Twenty Grand in the 1931 Kentucky Derby.
Van Dusen retired at the beginning of March that year but remained active in racing with a small string of his own horses.
[3] During 1941, he and the horse Clyde Van Dusen were reunited when the retired gelding was sent to Hollywood Park Racetrack to serve as a lead pony.