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Town Policy
Breed Quarter Horse
Discipline Racing
Sire Reb's Policy (TB)
Grandsire New Policy (TB)
Dam Camptown Girl
Maternal grandsire Breeze Bar
Sex Gelding
Foaled 1975
Country United States
Color Bay
Breeder Ivan Ashment
Owner Ivan Ashment
Honors
Racing record
64 starts, 22 wins
Race earnings
$862,000.00
Major racing wins
won 8 stakes races, including Kindergarten Futurity, Los Alamitos Derby, Vessels Maturity
Racing awards
1977 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old
1978 Champion Quarter Running Three Year Old Gelding
1980 Champion Quarter Running Aged Gelding
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

Town Policy (1975–1984) was a Quarter Horse racehorse, noted not only for his achievements on the racetrack, but for disappearing from his stall in 1977 and being recovered five months later in Mexico. A mere ten weeks after being recovered, Town Policy went on to win the Los Alamitos Derby by two and a half lengths. He broke his shoulder in an allowance race on January 3, 1984 and was buried in the infield of Los Alamitos Race Course the next day.

Town Policy was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1998.

  • AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on September 2, 2017
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