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...Jamaica, N.Y., the East's best hope in this week's Kentucky Derby-a chestnut colt named My Request-won the $40,000 added Wood Memorial Stakes, then headed for Louisville to do battle with Calumet Farm's prize Kentucky pair, Citation and Coaltown. Running as an entry, C & C would be such odds-on favorites (about 25? to the dollar) that nobody could make much money betting on them-and it seemed almost foolhardy to bet against them...
...Keeneland track, a bay colt broke and ran. Stop watches ticked away. The naked eye could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time-:58 2/5-ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another...
...Calumet Farm's six-year-old gelding, Armed, had been outdistanced by six-year-old Stymie as the leading money winner of all time (TIME, July 28); but he was not forgotten. The Triangle Publications (Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph, etc.) named him 1947's Horse-of-the-Year. The voting: Armed 25, Assault 2, Stymie...
Even in the lush twenties, when the Whitneys, Woodwards, Wideners and Sinclairs spent millions on the sport of kings, no stable had ever corralled such a fancy crop of horseflesh. Calumet's clear profit this year will top $600,000 (before taxes). The only other fancy U.S. stable likely even to finish in the black is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's (which has Phalanx, winner of $236,400, on its team...
...Jones Boys. Luck had something to do with Calumet's success-but not too much. Calumet has led all U.S. racing stables in income for five of the past seven years. What Calumet has, besides plenty of capital, is a lot of good horse-sense. All its horses come from the same incubator-1,038 acres of rolling blue-grass just outside Lexington, Ky. Its proprietor is placid Warren Wright, who inherited his millions from Calumet baking powder. His recipe for breeding horses: "Just mix the best with the best and hope for the best...