Sarah Sally Ann Lundy

1954 - 2017

Sarah Sally Ann Lundy obituary, 1954-2017, Formerly Of Downingtown, PA

BORN

1954

DIED

2017

FUNERAL HOME

CLOSED-Cleveland Funeral Home

221 Pennsylvania Ave # 223

Avondale, Pennsylvania

Sarah Lundy Obituary

Sarah ‘Sally’ Ann Lundy (née Caldwell), 63, of Monrovia, California, passed away on Saturday, August 26, 2017 at Huntingdon Hospital in Pasadena, California, after a long battle with liver cancer. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on August 26, 1954, Sally was the daughter of the late Mary and Pusey Caldwell. Sally graduated from Downingtown High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1972. She was interested in a career with horses at an early age. Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Sally worked with steeplechase trainers W. Burling Cocks and Bruce Miller and even rode in some steeplechase races before moving on to training thoroughbred race horses. Her career took her to New York, Florida, Kentucky, and California, and racetracks at Belmont, Saratoga, Pimlico, and Santa Anita, where she was last working for Carla Gaines. Sally became the first female trainer to run a horse in the Belmont Stakes in 1984. She worked as assistant trainer to Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel in California until Frankel’s death in 2009. While she was being treated for her cancer, Sally remained busy working at the racetrack, visiting national parks all over the country, and taking a trip with her 95 year old mother to Iceland this past February. Sally is survived by her two brothers, John Caldwell of West Chester, Pennsylvania and Stephen Caldwell of Columbia, Maryland. A Graveside Service will be at Union Hill Cemetery in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 17 at 11:00 AM In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in memory of Sarah Lundy to Old Friends Equine, a charity which takes care of retired thoroughbred horses. www.oldfriendsequine.org Arrangements by the Cleveland & Grieco Funeral Home (610-268-2166) of Avondale. To view her online tribute and to share memories with her family, please visit www.griecocares.com.

Published by The Daily Local from Oct. 6 to Oct. 9, 2017.
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Oh, John and Steve. I am very sorry to hear about Sally. I have very fond memories of all of you from Ridgewood Drive. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Ellen Barker Geisel

October 11, 2017

John & Susan, Steve & Jean, we hold you in the Light. So glad we got to visit Sally early in August. We will miss her. Hope your lives get a chance to settle a bit.

Judy Heald

October 7, 2017

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