Scott Paul Harlan (February 4, 1864 - January 1, 1948) was an American National Champion Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner of Idle Dell Farm near Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
[1] During his career Scott Harlan trained for preeminent owners Walter Jeffords and the Greentree Stable of Helen Hay Whitney.
For Whitney he trained Untidy to a performance in 1923 that saw her being named retrospectively as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.
Triple Crown races with his best result a third in the 1926 Preakness Stakes with Walter M. Jeffords's colt Mars.
She was ridden by the talented but ill-fated young jockey Ovila Bourassa who guided the filly to a three-length victory in track record time while beating a field of horses of either sex age three and older which included two future U.S.