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...Washington Park for the 40th running of the American Derby, Hill Prince made another bid for the title. Although Middleground was not among the nine horses which went to the barrier, the field was a strong one, including William Goetz's flashy, California-bred Your Host and Calumet Farm's entry of Theory and All Blue...
...York tracks who last week rated Hill Prince two pounds bet ter than Middleground in assigning weights fa a handicap at Aqueduct. This reversed his pre season rating of Middleground at 126 Ibs., Hil Prince at 124. *On the eve of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, which Calumet Trainer Ben Jones won with Ponder, a TIME correspondent asked Jones which of his two-year-olds he thought might be his best Derby prospect in 1950. Jones guessed that All Blue might be (TIME, May 30, 1949). Although he came around too late to run in any of the triple crown events...
...California's Golden Gate Fields last week, Trainer Jones had Calumet's big bay primed for the Golden Gate Mile. But when he saw the assigned weights he groaned: despite his five straight losses, Citation was asked to lug 128 Ibs., give five to four-year-old Bolero, which had just set a world record for six furlongs. Said Jones: "Every handicapper we've come up against sticks five pounds on because of Calumet's name. If Citation wasn't so ready I wouldn...
...pace, and Citation trailed him around the first turn and into the backstretch. It was a jet pace. Though the times did not count as official, Bolero was under the world records for five and six furlongs on the ultra-fast track.* Even so, he could not shake the Calumet colt...
...point. He got off first in a field of nine, stayed in front all the way, won by 6½ lengths. His time for the seven-furlong dash: 1:22.4, a new track record. In fourth place (after C. V. Whitney's Mr. Trouble and Calumet's Theory), and eleven lengths behind the winner: Oil Capitol...