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Trainer Ben Jones is as thorough as he is wily, especially when preparing one of his Calumet Farm horses for a big race like the Kentucky Derby. He always insists on his jockey being around for days in advance to get the feel of the horse, and to study the strategy that is planned...
...last week's 75th running of the Derby, plain Ben went to no such lengths. Steve Brooks, the Calumet jockey, rode at Pimlico the day before and finally got to jampacked Churchill Downs about noon on Derby day. Meanwhile Trainer Ben ("B.A.") Jones had told everybody who would listen how little he thought of his horse's chances. "I wouldn't bet a dollar on Ponder if he was 100 to 1," said he. "If he gets third money ($5,000), old B.A. will be the happiest man in the world." Ben Jones-and most everybody else...
Even though Calumet Farm's Coaltown has tied the world record for the mile and an eighth, Trainer Ben Jones insists that Coaltown's stablemate, Citation, is better ("He can catch any horse he can see"). Last week, Coaltown proved again just how great Citation must be. At Gulfstream Park, Fla., Coaltown stuck out his long neck and stormed a mile and a quarter in 1:59.8, to tie the world record for that distance too. Other winners...
Last week, the first edition of the Yardstick (for 1948's three-year-olds) was made public. It surprised nobody that Calumet Farm's Citation was honored with top-weight of 137 lbs. Next in line: Coaltown, 126, and My Request, 124. The man hired by the Thoroughbred Club to "put the figures on them" was owlish little Lincoln Plaut, 50, veteran field director of the Daily Racing Form. Having pegged Citation at 137, he had laid a basis for comparing him with champions of the future...
...Hialeah, Calumet Farm's Coaltown waltzed home ahead of the pack to present Owner Warren Wright with his fourth Widener Handicap...