Abe Perry began his career training for
Gen. Abraham Buford at his Bosque Bonita breeding farm in
Woodford County, Kentucky. From 1876 through 1878 he conditioned the colt McWhirter to several
stakes race wins. He ran fifth to
Baden-Baden in the May 22,
1877 Kentucky Derby but came back less than a week later to defeat Baden-Baden in the May 28
Clark Handicap at
Churchill Downs. Among his other wins with Joe Cotton, in 1885 Abe Perry won the important
Tennessee Derby in
Nashville and
Coney Island Derby at the
Sheepshead Bay Race Track in
Brooklyn,
New York. Perry is buried in
African Cemetery No. 2 in
Lexington, Kentucky. ==References==