Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High Standard was blue-eyed, gun-wise Carl Gustave ("Gus") Swebilius, who was born in Sweden 61 years ago, moved to the U.S. when he was 16, has been inventing and making guns ever since. Gus Swebilius worked with famed Inventor John Moses Browning during World War I, made Colt and Browning machine guns. After the Germans came out in War I with Anthony Fokker's device to fire airplane machine guns through the propeller, Gus Swebilius was the first in the U.S. to work out a similar device for the Allies...
...took a lot of courage to stick to Whirlaway. Bred at Millionaire Wright's farm in the heart of the Blue Grass, he is a colt of whom Kentuckians might well be proud: a handsome golden chestnut with a tail that almost sweeps the ground. But Whirlaway has inherited a tendency to run out (veer away from the inside rail) at the turns. That trait cost him several important races last year (he was defeated nine times in 16 starts). But Whirlaway proved that he is a stretch-running fool...
...turns became more & more discouraging. Last fortnight, in the Blue Grass Stakes, traditional Derby preview, he was licked by Our Boots. Last week, four days before the Big Race, he was given another tuneup in the Derby Trial Stakes-only to be beaten by Blue Pair, a colt that cost $600 as a yearling. In desperation, Trainer Ben Jones got canny Eddie Arcaro, a genius at handling headstrong horses, to ride Whirlaway in the Derby...
Even the loyal hardboots were flabbergasted. The Wright colt not only finished eight lengths in front, but ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min., 2/5 sec. (the last quarter in 24 seconds flat). It was 1/5 of a second faster than the Kentucky Derby record set by Twenty Grand just ten years ago. Said Jockey Arcaro, grinning from ear to ear: "He's the runnin'est horse I ever rode...
Tech, as in most of the race, was rowing a visibly higher stroke, and was not spacing as well as Harvard. With B. U. dropping back into a deep third place, Colt Wagner settled down to a steady 32 near the Harvard Bridge, and pulled away to a three-quarter length lead...