Preston Madden was heir to one of the most prominent families of horse racing. Madden for Hamburg Place” by Kent Hollingsworth Hamburg, champion two-year old of 1897, from the book “The Wizard of The Turf, John E. “Alysheba made my life,” he once told us of the 1987 Derby winner. The first was in 1945 due to World War II, and the second was this past weekend, when the Run for the Roses was rescheduled for Labor Day weekend due to COVID-19.
The Derby was postponed only twice in his lifetime. Although he had been recently hospitalized and released, he died at his home in Hamburg on May 5.Īt the time of his death, Madden hadn’t been to the Derby in three decades, but always followed it from afar.
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Madden’s office on Sir Barton boasted the most comprehensive archive of the Hamburg Journal outside of our own, and he sat down for many interviews with us over the past two decades, most recently for a summer 2018 cover story, and again after the death of his wife of 62 years, Anita, later that fall.
She was “so much more than that,” he said. “What does that matter?” he pointed out with a wry smile when explaining to us in 2018 that his wife Anita would not have appreciated that being the first item reported in the news of her death. Hamburg has lost our legendary neighbor, retired horseman and developer Preston Madden, who has died at the age he would probably describe as “none of your business.” He told us many times he was not a fan of news outlets who were so quick to identify the age of the deceased. Remembering Legendary Hamburg Horseman, Preston Madden
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