[2] A graduate of Lawrenceville School, Yale University and the University of Kentucky, Elliott Burch worked as a sports writer for the Daily Racing Form before going to work for his father in 1955 at Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable.
For Rokeby, he conditioned four Champions including the 1969 American Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame inductee, Arts and Letters and Fort Marcy, a Hall of Fame inductee and a five-time Eclipse Award winner including American Co-Champion Horse of the Year.
Burch went on to train for the stable of Sonny Whitney for whom he won a number of important stakes races including the 1982 Suburban Handicap with Silver Buck in which he set a new Belmont Park track record of 1:59.60 for 11⁄4 miles.
He also trained four Preakness Stakes runners, finishing second in 1959 (Sword Dancer) and 1969 (Arts and Letters), third in 1972 (Key To The Mint), and fourth in 1964 (Quadrangle).
Elliott Burch died in a Newport, Rhode Island hospital at age eighty-six following complications from pneumonia.