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Front-running Spy Song and stretch-driving Hampden were closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...
...three Arden horses-Knockdown. Lord Boswell and Perfect Bahram-went to the post at Churchill Downs, Elizabeth Arden Graham, who never started a horse in the Derby before, would be on a par with the late Harry Payne Whitney, who sent Upset (the only horse ever to beat mighty Man o' War), Wildair and Damask postward in 1920. The best Whitney could get was second with Upset...
Owner Arden was soon convinced that Smith 1) wouldn't hurt her pets; 2) wouldn't gouge her; 3) knew horses. They got along as well as any employer and employe can when one of them is Elizabeth Arden Graham. She told him to get rid of Knockdown, a $2,000 ugly duckling, and Tom allowed he would-some day. She brought out her Ardena eye lotion for the horses' eyes, and Ardena "Eight-Hour Cream" for their chafed spots. Diplomat Tom used them; they didn't do a horse any harm...
...with no violation of the law, so long as he disappeared when racing at Churchill Downs got officially under way last week. His 36-year-old son Jimmy took over the Maine Chance horses in California last winter, but old Tom was never far away. Asked if he saw Knockdown and Star Pilot run one-two in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, Elizabeth Arden said: "Oh, course he [did] ... the old fellow wouldn't break a rule for the world, but he has powerful glasses and probably was up in a tree." (Santa Anita is bordered by tall...
...month ago, the main division of Arden horses-including her $315,000 two-year-olds-headed for Chicago with Jimmy in charge. A very special division, headed by Lord Boswell and Knockdown, checked into Churchill Downs under the watchful eye of Silent Tom, trainer-with-out-portfolio. He silently went about prepping them with workouts over the mattress-soft Derby strip. He grew talkative only when the conversation turned to the New York Commission, and then his speech was an eloquent two words: "Those bastards...