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...Santa Fe also had friends. Western Pacific directors endorsed the Santa Fe plan, and the Great Northern Railway, which has a line that ties in with the Western system at Bieber, Calif., backed the Santa Fe and bought 8% of Western's stock to give its support more weight...
...tailor, Jacobs began with the only racers that could find moving room in New York City: homing pigeons. In 1926 he tapped his pigeons' nest egg for $1,500 to buy a nag named Reveillon. Two years later, he struck up an alliance with Shakespeare-spieling Isador ("Kid") Bieber, a onetime Broadway ticket scalper famed for his big bets (he won $60,000 by backing an underdog incumbent named Woodrow Wilson...
Bankrolled by Bieber, Jacobs bought horses, horses and more horses. In 1943 he found his only genuinely great thoroughbred: a red-sheened colt named Stymie, available for only $1,500. Tough as a cow pony and possessed of a champion's heart, Stymie started 131 times, won 35 races, took $918,485 to make him racing's top moneywinner up to that time...
...Secret. To win his 3,000 races, Hirsch Jacobs figures he has saddled at least 20,000 horses. Still in partnership with Bieber, Trainer Jacobs is getting help this year from his sons, John, 25 and Tom, 19. But he shows up at Aqueduct every morning at 7:30. "This business," he said last week, "is full of heartaches. You get a horse worth $50,000 one morning; by afternoon you can't get $1,000 for him." He paused to run an anxious hand down the legs of a horse...
...WALTER BIEBER Arcola, Sask., Canada...