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...collected his first Derby victory in 1938 on Lawrin, a 9-1 shot that Trainer Ben Jones thought almost too unsound to train. His second Derby victory was on Whirlaway in 1941, a chestnut colt that, for all its speed, had trouble taking a turn. Arcaro solved the problem by giving Whirlaway a long rein. And Trainer Jones helped out on Derby Day by cutting away the left cup of the colt's blinkers. The plan was to give Whirlaway full vision in his left eye so that he would naturally tend to follow the rail on turns. Recalls...
...Calumet colt to come home first in the "Run for the Roses,'' the third since Mrs. Markey inherited the farm from her first husband, the late baking-powder heir. Warren Wright. And Plain Ben Jones has even one more Derby winner than that: he trained the great Lawrin for Kansas City Clothing Merchant Herbert Woolf back...
...experience taught him a lesson: a good jockey must control his temper. Since then, Arcaro has become the No. 1 money-winning rider in the world. Starting in 1938 on Lawrin, he won the Kentucky Derby five times, the Belmont Stakes five, the Preakness four. In 1941, he hit the Triple Crown jackpot with Whirlaway and again in 1948 with Citation. Last week at Chicago, Arcaro, 36, on a horse named Ascent, passed another milestone: winner of 3,000 races, a record for an American-born jockey...
...Jones brought a sore-footed colt named Lawrin to Louisville. If he worked Lawrin, the horse would probably break down; if he didn't work him, he wouldn't be fit for the long Derby grind. Ben got a blacksmith to shoe the horse with heavy protective bar plates, then got one hard work and a race into him. On Derby Day, lightweight shoes replaced the heavy ones and Lawrin must have felt as though he was flying. He romped home...
...call from Jones in Louisville asking him to ride Lawrin, a 9-to-1 shot in the Kentucky Derby. "Not me," says Eddie. "I want no part of him." But Jones talked him into it, and Eddie got the biggest wallop of his life ("You only win your first Derby once"). The next time it was Whirlaway, and the Triple Crown. This February, the chances of Arcaro riding Citation for Ben Jones were about 100 to 1 against. Eddie, up on Assault, had crashed into Ben's pride & joy, Armed, in the Widener Handicap...