Red Terrill, Trained Turnback the Alarm, Dies

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William “Red” Terrill, who trained New York grade I winners Pretty Discreet and Turnback the Alarm, died the night of Dec. 27 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., according to Daily Racing Form. He was 80.

Turnback the Alarm was one of the leading fillies as a 3-year-old in 1992 and as a 4-year-old. She captured the 1992 Coaching Club American Oaks (gr. I) and the Mother Goose Stakes (gr. I). The following year, she took the Shuvee (gr. I) and Hempstead (gr. I) Handicaps and the Go for Wand Stakes (gr. I).

Pretty Discreet’s grade I score came in the 1995 Alabama Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga. Pretty Discreet is the dam of grade I winner Discreet Cat  , who stands at Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley near Lexington.

Terrill trained several other stakes winners. He was the breeder of stakes winner Our Tune and the co-breeder of added-money winner Slew Motion.

Terrill’s survivors included his son Bill and a daughter, Virginia Malone.

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