Word: calumet
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...decide what to do about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in adding to the mystery that surrounds the case. They awarded first place (plus the $122,600 purse) to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass. They suspended the Dancer's trainer, Lou Cavalaris, and his assistant, Robert Barnard, for 30 days. They issued a tight-lipped statement that spoke of "certain matters" that were deserving of "further investigation and action." But they did not say what those "certain matters...
...sport. Under Kentucky rules, the stewards had no choice but to disqualify Dancer's Image and place him last.* The disqualification cannot technically become official until a hearing is held this week, but it is virtually certain that first place and the $122,600 purse will go to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, who trailed Dancer's Image to the wire by 1½ lengths...
Ridden by Bobby Ussery, Dancer's Image broke tardily, was running dead last when the 14-horse field pounded into the backstretch. Rounding the final turn, he still trailed the pacesetting favorite (at 8-to-5 odds), Calumet Farm's Forward Pass, by eight lengths. Only then, when the horses straightened out in the stretch, did Dancer's Image really begin to run. With Jockey Ussery merely clucking to him, he rushed up along the rail, caught Forward Pass at the imi. pole and drew away to win by H lengths. The victory was worth...
Fuller said yesterday that he has not yet decided whether to run his horse in the Preakness and the Belmont, the final two races of the Triple Crown. The disqualification gives the new victor's owner, Calumet Farm, an unprecedented eight Derby winners. Forward Pass joins the ranks of such Calumet greats as 1948 Derby-winner Citation, who went on to become the last winner of the Triple Crown...
...sentiment's sake alone, Calumet Farm's Forward Pass would figure to be the post-time favorite at Churchill Downs. Winner of more Derbies (seven) than any other stable, the farm that produced such champions as Citation, Whirlaway and Armed has fallen on hard times recently: not since Tim Tam carried her devil's red and blue silks to victory in the 1958 Derby has Calumet's owner, Mrs. Gene Markey, even entered a horse in the Run for the Roses. Forward Pass is a throwback to the good old days. A rangy bay with tremendous...