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The snickers stopped in 1943, when Jacobs claimed an unimpressive colt named Stymie for $1,500 and turned him into one of the most spectacular horses of all time. Stymie won more than $900,000 in purses, allowing Jacobs and Bieber to buy a 283-acre breeding farm in Maryland...
Patrice Jacobs, named after Damon Runyon's second wife, grew up in the warm comfort of her family's spacious red brick colonial home in Forest Hills, Queens, a horseshoe's toss from both Aqueduct and Belmont. She was educated by nuns, at her Catholic mother'...
After graduating from Marymount, Patrice moved back with her parents, wrote a few articles for the Morning Telegraph, painted a little and tried to help run the growing Jacobs-Bieber empire. Horses became her life. Every year her father let her pick a couple of home-breds from his stable...
One man who believes is Lazaro "Laz" Barrera, Affirmed's trainer and a kind of latterday, Cuban-style Hirsch Jacobs. Son of a part-time jockey, Barrera, 53, was born on land that later became a racetrack in Havana. He began training at 16, moved to California in 1959...
More and more, that life is revolving around Affirmed. They travel with the horse, fend off would-be buyers and curious reporters, and spend long evenings at home laying plans for his future (they intend to race him next year as a four-year-old). "It makes me remember so...