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...Derby has always been a crazy race. Some winners of past Derbies, like Broker's Tip and Morvich, never won another race in their lives. Could that be Proud Clarion's fate? One famous Derby loser, Native Dancer, never lost another race. Could that be Damascus? Some of the greatest horses of all time never even raced in the Derby. Could one of those turn out to be In Reality, a likely starter tomorrow...
...First and last California horse to win the Derby: Morvich...
...February's $136,900 Santa Anita Derby, but most Eastern racing fans had to be shown why that entitled Californians to think he would win the Kentucky Derby. The East's stubbornly simple logic was based on the facts that 1) only one California horse, Morvich in 1922, had ever won the Kentucky Derby, and 2) Your Host had never run against the best of the three-year-old crop. Last week at Kentucky's Keeneland Track, Movieman-Owner William Goetz and his Louis B. Mayer-bred colt put on an impressive show...
...having made a big book against Morvich in the 1922 Derby, he started his Busy American against his veterinarian's and trainer's advice. The horse had developed an injured tendon. "He might just as well break down now as later in the season," said the Colonel. Busy American led the field for a quarter-mile, then broke down, ruined for life...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...