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...Owner Arden was soon convinced that Smith 1) wouldn't hurt her pets; 2) wouldn't gouge her; 3) knew horses. They got along as well as any employer and employe can when one of them is Elizabeth Arden Graham. She told him to get rid of Knockdown, a $2,000 ugly duckling, and Tom allowed he would-some day. She brought out her Ardena eye lotion for the horses' eyes, and Ardena "Eight-Hour Cream" for their chafed spots. Diplomat Tom used them; they didn't do a horse any harm...
...changed blacksmiths. What impressed people around the stable most favorably, besides the ability of her stable to win, was that she obviously loved horses. She never bets on her own horses, and rarely bets more than $5 on anyone else's. The Silent Partner. Just when Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses were doing their best, Silent Tom got into deep trouble with the New York Racing Commission. The charge: that he had "hopped up" one of her horses with ephedrine (TIME...
There was a private hearing in which Jockey-Clubber William Woodward spent most of the time asking what hop Tom had given Seabiscuit to make him run so fast. There were many public hearings which convinced Owner Arden, and most of the racegoing public, that Tom had used ephedrine only to stop a horse's head cold, that it was no "hop." Nevertheless the New York Commission ruled him off all U.S. race tracks until next...
...secret that Tom Smith has done the training for Elizabeth Arden Graham's Derby varsity-and with no violation of the law, so long as he disappeared when racing at Churchill Downs got officially under way last week. His 36-year-old son Jimmy took over the Maine Chance horses in California last winter, but old Tom was never far away. Asked if he saw Knockdown and Star Pilot run one-two in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, Elizabeth Arden said: "Oh, course he [did] ... the old fellow wouldn't break a rule for the world...
...month ago, the main division of Arden horses-including her $315,000 two-year-olds-headed for Chicago with Jimmy in charge. A very special division, headed by Lord Boswell and Knockdown, checked into Churchill Downs under the watchful eye of Silent Tom, trainer-with-out-portfolio. He silently went about prepping them with workouts over the mattress-soft Derby strip. He grew talkative only when the conversation turned to the New York Commission, and then his speech was an eloquent two words: "Those bastards...