Word: colt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, experts had said that the Kentucky Derby would be a private duel between California's stretch-running Tompion and Bally Ache, the Eastern colt with the early foot. All but shrugged off was Venetian Way, a handsome, blaze-faced colt who had won only two stakes races in a career of 14 starts. But on second sight (after the race) it turned out that the experts had forgotten some key points...
...Whitney's smallish colt Tompion is an 8-to-5 Derby choice. At Keeneland's Blue Grass Stakes last week, Tompion ran away from three other hopefuls, won his fourth straight major-stakes victory to push his earnings to $315,000. Tompion's bloodlines-by Tom Fool out of Sunlight, a Count Fleet mare-cannot be improved upon. Tom Fool was recently voted the outstanding horse of the 1950s, has already sired one Derby winner, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn (1958). For C. V. Whitney, a Derby victory would be a long time in the making...
...horse for a bargain-basement price of $2,500, named him Bally Ache after the Jockey Club Commission turned down several other proposed names. Says Fruchtman: "I nearly got an ulcer before we named him Bally Ache." (Fruchtman jokes that when Bally Ache goes to stud, his first colt will be named Bally Button.) Bally Ache has run out of the money only once in 23 races, since January has won the $100,000 Flamingo Stakes and the $100,000 Florida Derby. Says Trainer Jimmy Pitt: "He's successful because he never frets or fusses and is the most...
...Sunny Blue Farms' Venetian Way, who was second to Bally Ache in the Stepping Stone, won four of his nine starts as a two-year-old, was picked by many as the colt most likely to succeed. But a bad case of blood worms knocked him off form as a three-year-old until he bounced back with a record-tying 1:08 4/5 for six furlongs at Gulfstream, lost by a nose to Bally Ache in the Florida Derby...
Bankrolled by Bieber, Jacobs bought horses, horses and more horses. In 1943 he found his only genuinely great thoroughbred: a red-sheened colt named Stymie, available for only $1,500. Tough as a cow pony and possessed of a champion's heart, Stymie started 131 times, won 35 races, took $918,485 to make him racing's top moneywinner up to that time...