Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ultimate result: Calumet's high-pressure horse factory, which costs $500,000 a year to operate, earned a whopping $1,269,710 in purses last year; the year before it won $1,402,436, a runaway record. Says Ben Jones: "It's like running a grocery store ... I love to...
When Calumet's own foals begin dropping early each year, no time is lost preparing them for their goal in life?the race track. Halters go on the wobbly legged foals when they are only two days old. Ben Jones and his hard-working farm manager, Paul ("Dutch") Ebelhardt, like...
Ben Jones recognized Whirlaway as a potentially great horse?even though he was foolish and eccentric off the race track, and completely crazy on it. It took three men to put a saddle on him. In the paddock the horse shook like an aspen. When he went into a turn...
...Farm Training Stable," and turned the heavy chores over to Jimmy. Since then the stable has often raced in two divisions, with horses and trainers interchangeable. No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning. Financially, it is a family stand-off with each of the Joneses getting a $12,000-a-year salary plus 5% of all purses won by Calumet (or some $160,000 apiece in the last two years...
Pounds v. Dollars. On matters of policy, Ben does the talking. One of his principal matters of policy is weight?and that mainly concerns Citation and Coaltown. Weight will stop any horse from winning if the handicappers put enough of it on his back, and Ben Jones is not in...