Stud Career
Carry Back returned to stud at the end of 1963. Although he was not a great success as a sire, he still managed to produce twelve stakes winners and the dams of thirty more. His progeny included Back in Paris (Gallorette Handicap), Sharp Gary (Illinois Derby, Display Handicap, Gallant Fox Handicap) and Toter Back (dam of the Group One winner and sire Bob Back).
Carry Back was voted into the American Hall of Fame in 1975.
After his breeding career ended, he was pensioned at the Ocala Jockey Club farm in Florida. In 1983 preparations were under way for a joint birthday celebration for Carry Back and his fellow Florida-bred Needles who were then the two oldest surviving Kentucky Derby winners. A month before the "birthday party", however, Carry Back was diagnosed with cancer and euthanized on March 24 at the age of twenty-five. His ashes were originally interred at Ocala Racecourse but were later moved to the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs in Louisville, home of his greatest victory. His grave marker carried the words "The People's Choice".
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