Henry Forrest (July 7, 1907 - April 5, 1975) was an American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who twice won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
[1] Henry Forrest was born in Covington, Kentucky, and began his career near Lexington breaking yearlings for Col. E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm.
He embarked on a professional training career in 1937 that would mainly involve operating public stables but also for renowned Kentucky owners, Claiborne and Calumet Farm.
[2] He repeated the feat two years later in 1968 with Forward Pass[3] who would receive American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse honors.
[4] During a career in which he won more than 2,000 races, eight times Henry Forrest finished among the top ten American trainers in races won and on two occasions was in the top ten in purse money earned.