Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he was through, Whirlaway won $561,161 in purses and became the world's leading money-winner. "I couldn't stand a horse like Whirlaway now," says Ben, "he'd take too much...
Family Stand-Off. Not long after Whirlaway was retired to stud, in 1943, Ben himself began to talk about retiring. Diabetes and the strain of 40 hectic years on the track was beginning to tell...
...before he got around to quitting, Pensive won the 1944 Kentucky Derby for him (at a $16.20 mutuel). That summer, Pensive bowed a tendon and was retired to stud. (He died last week.) By then Ben was busy with a Calumet filly named Twilight Tear, who struck a stride which finally carried her to 1944's Horse-of-the-Year title...
...years later, Ben Jones got himself promoted to the post of "head trainer and manager of the Calumet Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...
Pounds v. Dollars. On matters of policy, Ben does the talking. One of his principal matters of policy is weight?and that mainly concerns Citation and Coaltown. Weight will stop any horse from winning if the handicappers put enough of it on his back, and Ben Jones is not in the business of losing races...