Woody Stephens 1998 Deaths

Woody Stephens

legendary thoroughbred racing trainer who won the Eclipse Award in 1983 as the nation's No. 1 trainer; his horses won five straight Belmont Stakes races in the 1980s; he won the Kentucky Derby with Canonade in 1974 and Swale in 1984 and the Preakness with Blue Man in 1952; elected to racing's Hall of Fame in 1976; of complications from chronic emphysema