Macdonald Benson
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Macdonald "Mac" Benson (born June 30, 1930, in
Canadian Classics
.
Mac Benson embarked on his professional training career in 1958 and began by working for prominent Delaware
William du Pont, Jr. He later would operate a public stable, racing at tracks in Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland. Among his clients in the early 1970s was another duPont family member, Bayard Sharp, who was a founding director of Delaware Park Racetrack and a former president of The Blood-Horse Inc. magazine. In 1976, Benson was offered a job by the head of operations for Windfields Farm who raced in Canada and the United States, and who maintained breeding operations in Maryland and Ontario
.
Settling in the
Canadian Horse of the Year
honors.
In 2002, Mac Benson was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.