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Never in the history of horse racing have the stakes been so high. And never before has one stable won so many big pots. Last week, Calumet Farm added up more than $1,000,000 in purses won this year (previous record: $601,660). Its pride & joy, Armed, had put Calumet over a million with his victory in the Washington Park Handicap at Chicago. Armed overtook Assault to become the second biggest money-winner of all time. And there is still another quarter million in purses for Calumet's fast horses to run after this season...
...Calumet Farm is as deep in reserves as a Notre Dame football squad. Besides Armed, its stars include a plump little filly named Bewitch, whose high hindquarters make her look as if she were walking downhill. Winner of eight straight races, she is still unbeaten, easily the No. 1 two-year-old of the year. Also on the first team: Fervent, who broke the track record in the $60,000 American Derby; Faultless, the winner of last spring's Preakness...
...Kentucky-bred named Faultless-and it was just possible that the Kentuckians were keeping quiet because they knew they had a good thing. Big, brown Faultless was born within 70 miles of Derbyville. on Calumet Farm's 1,038 fat acres. In March he won Florida's $50,000 Flamingo Stakes with ease; last week, he made three rivals look silly in a warm-up at nearby Keeneland...
...colonels grinned sheepishly. They could be pretty sure that crafty Ben Jones, the Calumet trainer, had things under control-even if he did come from Missouri. Ben's record proved conclusively that he knew how to saddle a Kentucky Derby winner: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944). Faultless was the Kentucky horse to beat...
...usual, had just copped one division of Jamaica's $40,000 Wood Memorial. He ran the mile and a sixteenth, apparently under wraps, in 1:43 4/5. His jockey, long-nosed Eddie Arcaro, is the best stakes rider in the business and he is just as intent as Calumet's Ben Jones on winning his fourth Derby...