Homer Chesley Pardue (March 5, 1910 – January 5, 1979) was an American trainer and owner of Thoroughbred racehorses.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, across the street from Churchill Downs, Pardue began working in the racing industry as an exercise rider at the famous track while a fourteen-year-old schoolboy.
[1] Twenty years later he had his first Kentucky Derby runner when Red Hannigan finished twelfth in the 1954 running.
1972 saw Pardue return to the Triple Crown series with his Louisiana and Arkansas Derby winner, No Le Hace.
[4] With Clev Er Tell, in 1977 Pardue again won the Louisiana and Arkansas Derbys in the same year but did not make it to the Triple Crown events when the horse suffered a fractured knee during training.