Parke trained the 1945 Kentucky Derby winner, Hoop Jr. and Jewel's Reward to 1957 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors.

[2] Hired to ride for the major racing stable of Harry Payne Whitney in 1924, Parke rode in the Kentucky Derby for him in 1924 and 1925, finishing off the board on both occasions.

Besides winning the Kentucky Derby, among Parke's other accomplishments, he bred and trained Olympia, a colt with which he won the 1949 Wood Memorial Stakes.

In 1957, while trainer for Maine Chance Farm, Ivan Parke conditioned Jewel's Reward to American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors.

[6] Inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1978 as a jockey, Ivan Parke was living in Alachua, Florida at the time of his death in 1995 at age eighty-six.