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Around Plain, Ben's pony, munching grass, was a set of Calumet horses with the exercise boys still in the saddles. It is one of Ben's tricks to let his horses settle down and get a bellyful of grass as soon as they come back from a morning's gallop. He feels that it helps horses get the idea that work and play are practically the same thing. Such basic ideas, plus patience and instinctive horse sense, have made him famous wherever horses are raced...
Wright insisted that all his enterprises, including Calumet Farm at Lexington, Ky., show results. He went as high as $75,000 to get the best brood mares he could find. The rest of the Calumet first team that operated under Quarterback...
...Jones's first Derby winner. Several months later, Ben was sitting in a box at Chicago's Arlington Park when Millionaire Warren Wright stopped by and said: "Telephone me tonight." Wright wanted Ben Jones as the triggerman for his then not-too-successful Calumet Farm...
Horses for Profits. A meticulous man who inherited a Chicago fortune, Warren Wright decided when he took over his family's Calumet Baking Powder Co. that he would not be satisfied until he doubled the fortune. Under his able management, Calumet prospered so well that Postum Co., Inc. offered him "more than it was worth" (about $29,200,000 worth of common stock), and he sold...
Ultimate result: Calumet's high-pressure horse factory, which costs $500,000 a year to operate, earned a whopping $1,269,710 in purses last year; the year before it won $1,402,436, a runaway record. Says Ben Jones: "It's like running a grocery store ... I love to hear that cash register ring...