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Only one Virginia-bred horse, Reigh Count in 1928, has ever won the Kentucky Derby. Jockeys are notoriously superstitious and even wise Eddie Arcaro is not a man to ride in the face of such an imposing tradition unless he has a good reason. But Eddie was curious about the 1950 form of Christopher Chenery's Virginia-bred Hill Prince, a big (16:1 hands) bay colt, which had won six of his seven 1949 starts, three under Arcaro...
...watch the Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, first of the Eastern trials building up to the Derby climax May 6. The race was only six furlongs, and Owner Chenery fretted about Hill Prince's slow starts and his 124-lb. impost. His concern seemed justified when, despite Arcaro's quick whip, Hill Prince was a poor next-to-last at the half-mile post; it seemed improbable that the bay could make up eight lengths and pass five horses in the next quarter-mile...
Passing Fancy. But unerringly guided by Arcaro, Hill Prince threaded through the opposition with the zip of a motorcycle in a traffic jam, won by better than a length going away. Among the horses he passed in the closing drive: Derby hopefuls Casemate and Guillotine (winner of. last year's Futurity Stakes-TIME...
...Small Doubt. Would Arcaro ride him in the Derby Keen-eyed, banana-nosed Eddie wore the expression of a faintly satisfied but still skeptical banker, still trying to make up his mind about a big loan. Eddie wanted to see what Hill Prince would do in this week's second Experimental at a mile and a sixteenth. "He's just as good as he was last year," Arcaro said. "But he's never had to go more than 6á furlongs in a race. Some people doubt he can go for distance and might hang...
...days later, in the $100,000 Santa Anita Maturity, Calumet got back in stride. With Eddie Arcaro in the saddle, Calumet's fine filly Two Lea took the lead and led the field all the way into the stretch. There Arcaro looked over his shoulder, saw Calumet's Ponder coming like a lumberjack to dinner. At the finish it was Ponder by a length, with Two Lea second and the rest nowhere. Jimmy Jones felt better. If Citation should fail, Miche and the others would still have Ponder-and Two Lea-to beat in the Hundred-Grander...