Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born & bred in Brooklyn. Hirsch Jacobs outgrew sidewalk handball as an outlet for his competitive urge when he was 13. Like many another adolescent in New York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian...
Of the thousands of horse races he has seen since, Mr. Jacobs has bet on remark ably few. Unlike most trainers, who hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from...
Aware that homing, even for pigeons, is an acquired impulse, it occurred to Hirsch Jacobs that few race horses know what horse races are for. Buying cheap, discarded beasts which, to his sharp eye, possessed potentialities of speed, he schooled them in the neglected fundamentals of their profession, as though...
It is the belief of Mr. Jacobs that a trainer who expects to get good treatment from his horses should respond in kind. He inspects each of his charges several times a day, makes them practice no more than is absolutely essential, hires the best available exercise boys. He believes...
Trainer Jacobs is adept at picking races and riders as well as race horses. His entries are rarely overmatched. He has no contract jockey, chooses riders who are "hot," i e., enjoying winning streaks. Jacobs' horses are usually entered in the name of his wife. Mrs. Ethel Jacobs consequently...