Word: gallahadion
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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From East and West came the cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front...
...redeemed himself, and his ailing, 80-year-old owner sat in his box with tears in his eyes. Leading from start to finish, he floated away from his rivals, finished two lengths ahead of Charles S. Howard's Mioland, three ahead of Ethel Mars's Gallahadion, the upstart who had humbled him in the Derby...
...suddenly, charging up on the inside, a horse slipped between Big Bim and the rail-into the gap made by Roman's dropping back. It was Milky Way Farm's Gallahadion, with Carroll Bierman up, whom few had noticed inching his way along the rail. With powerful strides, Gallahadion pulled farther & farther away, reached the wire a length and a half ahead of Big Bim, who was desperately struggling to keep Arnold Hanger's Dit from second place...
...several minutes before the dumfounded onlookers recovered their voices. Few had given Gallahadion even an outside chance to finish second or third. He was a colt who had never finished better than fourth as a two-year-old and had lost more races than he had won at Santa Anita last winter. Only four days before, in a mile race over the same track and with the same jockeys, Bimelech had beaten Gallahadion by almost three lengths. His owner, Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars, decided not to go from Chicago to Louisville for the Derby, although her trainer, Roy Waldron...
...windows the handful of betters who had backed Gallahadion were handsomely rewarded: $72.40 for $2, second largest payoff in Derby history. To Mrs. Mars went $60,000 and her first Derby cup in six tries, to Gallahadion 500 red roses...