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...season for two-year-olds; it is the national marketplace for the country's yearlings. Though many turf enthusiasts are looking forward to a possible meeting of Charles S. Howard's sensational Argentine-bred Kayak II, foremost handicap horse of the year, and William Woodward's fleet-footed Johnstown, foremost three-year-old of the year, field glasses at this Saratoga season, like all its predecessors, will focus on the 500 or more two-year-olds making their debut in swank racing society...
...English tracks. Not all of this money went into Mr. Woodward's pocket. Horses sold as yearlings won $1,250,000 of this amount. In the past decade, three Woodward-owned horses have won the Kentucky Derby: Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), and Johnstown (1939). Five have captured the Belmont Stakes, considered by breeders, because of its longer distance (1½ miles), far more important than the Derby. Thrice Mr. Woodward has owned the No. 1 money-winner of the year (Gallant Fox, Omaha, Granville...
...horses took first place in four of the nine English stakes in which they started and earned more money ($104,365) than any U. S. stable had ever won in England in one year. Last week on the eve of the opening of Saratoga, the Belair Stud, with famed Johnstown and Fighting Fox out front, was again in the top money spot with winnings of $225,000 so far this year...
Fighting Fox, a temperamental four-year-old, who breaks a record one day and runs like a plug the next, has earned almost $75,000 of the stable's 1939 winnings. But three-year-old Johnstown, Kentucky Derby winner, has been the sensation of the 1939 racing season. Toasted as another Man o' War when he made all his contemporaries look like hobby horses early in the season, Big John, a homely colt with lop ears, upset the dopesters when he was beaten by William L. Brann's Challedon in the Preakness...
...Glade Valley Farm 70 miles away, was the first Maryland-bred, Maryland-owned winner of Maryland's beloved Preakness since 1877. Rewarding his owner with $53,710, richest prize of the year for three-year-olds, Challedon became the leading money-winner among his contemporaries (foals of 1936). Johnstown has won $103,295. Challedon's total...