Word: markey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years, betting against the devil's-red-and-blue of Calumet Farm has proved a losing business. With Plain Ben Jones and his son Jimmy to handle her horses, Calumet Owner Mrs. Gene Markey can practically claim squatter's rights on the special Derby winner's circle at Churchill Downs...
...Tarn was the seventh 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...
...other stable, Iron Liege would have been top banana. But at Mrs. Gene Markey's fabulously successful Calumet Farm he was only a talented understudy,* the pacesetter for the compact Gen. Duke, ranked by the experts as the finest three-year-old in the land. At post time Iron Liege was held at better than 8 to 1 in the finest field to run in years. Even his jockey, brash Willie Hartack, doubted his chances. Bold Ruler, ridden by canny Eddie Arcaro, was a solid 6-to-5 favorite...
...EMORY MARKEY...
ALEXANDER MARKEY Bombay, India...