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Pensive's 33 running mates at Warren Wright's Calumet stable include such potentially heavy winners as Sun Again, Miss Keeneland, Mar-Kell, and Twilight Tear. Under Ben Jones, this collection of horsepower may well become to racing what the Yankees are to baseball...
...that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby winter book before he won an impressive race in the mud at Kentucky's Keeneland...
Last week, 13,000 racing fans turned out at Kentucky's Keeneland Park to watch Big Bim run in the Blue Grass Stakes, his first appearance as a three-year-old. With ailing, 80-year-old Colonel Bradley watching from his car near the clubhouse, Bimmy, floating along with his tongue stuck out and his eyes half-closed, proved that he is just as good at three as he was at two. On a slow track, without any urging, he ran the 1⅛ miles in 1:51 flat, beating Joseph Widener's Roman by two lengths...
Last week, on the first anniversary of his first winning ride at a U. S. race track, little Jack Flinchum could look back on an imposing record: in 1,167 races-at Hot Springs, Keeneland, Louisville, Cleveland and other lesser tracks before going to Miami-he had booted home 190 winners, 162 to place, 132 to show. With 63 winners since the first of the year, he was last week leading the race for No. 1 jockey...
...handicappers, who would have been playing Stagehand, were getting their money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name...