Word: calumet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seldom has a millionaire registered such deeply visible disappointment at not achieving another million as Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney did during a race at Louisville's Churchill Downs last week. Only one stable in U.S. turf annals has racked up such mountainous winnings in one year of racing (Calumet Farm has turned the trick six times). In Louisville, Whitney and fourth wife Mary had had high hopes of cracking the million mark with their grey filly, Bright Silver. Whitney was short of his goal by only $3,399, and the winner's purse in the race...
...fourth straight major-stakes victory to push his earnings to $315,000. Tompion's bloodlines-by Tom Fool out of Sunlight, a Count Fleet mare-cannot be improved upon. Tom Fool was recently voted the outstanding horse of the 1950s, has already sired one Derby winner, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn (1958). For C. V. Whitney, a Derby victory would be a long time in the making; in ten Derbys, he has entered 13 horses, never been in the winner's circle...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Unlike such other famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons (Wheatley Stable, Ogden Phipps) and Jimmy Jones (Calumet Farm), canny Hirsch Jacobs works for himself: he breeds and trains his own horses. While rival trainers tend to concentrate on a few promising horses, developing and saving them for a handful of high-prize stakes races, Jacobs sends his to the gate in wholesale lots. With his horse-factory methods, Jacobs seldom gets a truly famous horse. He has never, for example, won the Kentucky Derby; nor does he have a candidate for 1960's triple crown...