Word: bahram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Jet Pilot's owner, Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, was almost too preoccupied to notice his debut. Her thoughts at the 1946 Derby were on her highly touted entry, Lord Boswell, Knockdown, Perfect Bahram, who were to carry her colors in the big race-but finished out of the pari-mutuel money. But some who saw Jet Pilot's debut said sagely: "There's the winner of next year's Derby...
...Derby Day, Elizabeth Arden's two-horse varsity may get help from an unsung stablemate. Perfect Bahram, whose job would be to make the pace. They were the aces that Queen Arden counted on to rule the Sport of Kings...
...three Arden horses-Knockdown. Lord Boswell and Perfect Bahram-went to the post at Churchill Downs, Elizabeth Arden Graham, who never started a horse in the Derby before, would be on a par with the late Harry Payne Whitney, who sent Upset (the only horse ever to beat mighty Man o' War), Wildair and Damask postward in 1920. The best Whitney could get was second with Upset...
Bred and owned by His Highness The Aga Khan, Bahram had never been defeated. As a three-year-old, he won England's famed "triple crown" (the Epsom Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes)-something that only 13 other thoroughbreds had accomplished during 130 years of British horse racing. At stud, Bahram's blood lines were important to British racing. But last month, when the Nazis confiscated the French branch of the Aga Khan's fabulous stable, the Indian potentate, stranded on a Swiss Alp (TIME, Aug. 19), decided to sell his priceless Bahram...
...turfmen, the arrival of Bahram was big news. But bigger still was the news that his new owners were not the Wideners, Woodwards and Whitneys who usually import great European stallions, but a syndicate of four young men, all under 35: Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Sylvester Labrot Jr., James Cox Brady Jr. and Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Alfred Vanderbilt is no tyro at either raising or racing thoroughbreds. Six years ago, on his 21st birthday, he inherited his mother's magnificent stud farm and racing stable, invested half a million or more in Pimlico and Belmont Park race tracks...