He is best remembered for his more than two decades as a trainer for Col. Edward R. Bradley's Idle Hour Stock Farm.
Another of Hurley's important Hall of Fame horses was Bimelech[2] who earned U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt and 3-Year-Old honors in 1939 and 1940 respectively, and who just missed winning the U.S.
Triple Crown when he finished second in the 1940 Kentucky Derby[3] then won both the Preakness[4] and Belmont Stakes.
[5] After 46 years with Idle Hour Stock Farm, Bill Hurley retired from racing in 1940.
He died at age 81 in 1952 at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida.