extensive rebuilding of Belmont Park. John Galbreath was voted the 1972 Big Sport of Turfdom Award by the Turf Publicists of America and in 1974 he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder. In 2018, Galbreath was voted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as one of its esteemed Pillars of the Turf. Galbreath died in Galloway, Ohio, three weeks prior to his 91st birthday. Galbreath's death occurred five and a half weeks prior to the passing of Art Rooney, who founded the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1933 and owned the franchise for 55 years. Awards and honors Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1961) Columbus Award (1964) Big Sport of Turfdom Award (1972) Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder (1974) National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Pillar of the Turf (2018) External links 1963 Newspaper article on his baseball and horse racing interests. References July 21, 1988 New York Times obituary for John W. Galbreath Bowen, Edward L. Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders (2003) Eclipse Press June 1, 1959 Sports Illustrated article titled The Man, The Horse And The Deal That Made History 1988 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obituary 1897 births 1988 deaths American racehorse owners and breeders Eclipse Award winners Owners of Epsom Derby winners United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees Major League Baseball owners People from Madison County, Ohio Pittsburgh Pirates owners Ohio University alumni People from Franklin County, Ohio 20th-century American philanthropists