Mallory named Kentucky farm manager of year
Myra Lewyn, Thoroughbred Times
Posted: 10/6/06

The Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club chose late Central Kentucky-based consignor and Thoroughbred breeder Dan Mallory as its 2006 farm manager of the year during the club's meeting on Thursday in Lexington.

Mallory, who served as the club's president in 1989, was one of 49 who perished on August 27 in the crash of Comair Delta Connection Flight 5191 shortly after takeoff at Bluegrass International Airport in Lexington.

Mallory was chosen by a five-person committee that included Airdrie Stud farm manager Tim Thornton, who held the distinction last year; Claiborne Farm manager Gus Koch; Central Kentucky horseman Ted Bates; and club President Steve Nicholson.

"He definitely was most deserving of the award," Thornton said of Mallory, a Lexington native who owned and operated Meadow Haven Farm in Paris, Kentucky. "He should have got it a long time ago. He was the epitome of the working man's horseman; he's a true hardboot. He worked hard is whole life. He was a class act and a hard-working horseman.

"He'll be missed by all us working people, believe me."

In his presidential address to the club in 1989 Mallory wrote: "We are armed with the technology to take our industry to heights never before dreamed possible if we will only remember it will always take horsemanship to get from the breeding shed to the blanket of roses on the first Saturday in May. Hopefully, this art will never be lost."—Myra Lewyn