Hal Price Headley

{{short description|Farmer, racehorse owner/breeder, racetrack owner/executive, philanthropist}}

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| name = Hal Price Headley

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| birth_date = December 19, 1888

| birth_place = Lexington, Kentucky,
United States

| death_date = March 22, 1962

| death_place = Lexington, Kentucky,
United States

| resting_place = Lexington Cemetery[http://www.lexcem.org Lexington Cemetery]

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| education = Princeton University

| occupation = Farmer, racehorse owner/breeder, racetrack owner/executive, philanthropist [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1616785/ Annals of Surgery, gift by Hal Price Headley]

| known_for = {{nowrap|Beaumont Farm, Keeneland}}

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| boards = Keeneland

| spouse = {{ubl|Martha Sharkey Withers
(1889–1922)|Genevieve Morgan Molloy
(1897–1987)}}

| children = 6

| awards =

| honors = Keeneland Mark of Distinction (1968)
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame
- Pillars of the Turf (2018)

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Hal Price Headley (December 19, 1888 – March 22, 1962) was an American owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses and a founder of Keeneland who served as the race track's president from 1935 to 1951. He owned the 4,000 acre Beaumont Farm on Harrodsburg Road at the western edge of Lexington, Kentucky as well as the 15,000-acre Pinebloom Plantation in Baker County, Georgia.[https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/23/archives/hal-price-headley-dead-at-73-owner-of-thoroughbred-horses-operated.html New York Times - March 22, 1962 obituary]

Hal Price Headley was one of those profiled by racing historian Edward L. Bowen in his 2003 book Legacies of the Turf : A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders.

In 2018, Hal Price Headley was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as one of the "Pillars of the Turf".{{cite web|url=https://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/hal-price-headley |title=Hal Price Headley |publisher=Racingmuseum.org |date=2018-01-01 |access-date=2019-10-17}} The honor is for those "who have made extraordinary contributions to Thoroughbred racing in a leadership or pioneering capacity at the highest national level."{{cite press release|author=|title=August Belmont Jr. and Paul Mellon Selected|url=http://www.racingmuseum.org/news/news.asp?varID=345|location=Saratoga Springs, NY|publisher=National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|date=2013-06-05|access-date=2014-03-18|archive-date=2014-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318081949/http://www.racingmuseum.org/news/news.asp?varID=345|url-status=dead}}