Word: neloy
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...sense, it was the coup de grace for mighty Buckpasser. Soon after the race, Trainer Eddie Neloy announced that the strapping horse would run no more, would retire to stud in Kentucky. It seemed a sound decision. Since early last year, Buckpasser has been afflicted by painful cracks in his right forehoof; this year, the condition became chronic, and without making excuses, said Neloy, "it definitely compromised his abilities in the Woodward...
...Eddie Neloy, who trains Successor, as well as horse-of-the-year Buckpasser, has the habit of winning all the big ones. It wold not be surprising to see him win another...
...seven starts and $97,225 in the bank. Two weeks ago, at Illinois' Arlington Park, Buckpasser won the American Derby-on the same day that Great Power was winning the Sapling Stakes at New Jersey's Monmouth Park. That double play was worth $146,791, gave Trainer Neloy a total of 29 stakes victories so far this year, and boosted the Phippses' 1966 winnings to more than...
Since his cut of those winnings is a flat 10% plus expenses, it is no wonder that Neloy is no longer Eddie Neloy, Esq., but Eddie Neloy, Inc. A World War II machine gunner who lost the sight of his right eye at Anzio, he moodily insists that "training is an inexact science"-but since 1945, when he saddled his first winner, Neloy has won 700-odd races and 17 of his horses have won more than $100,000 in a single year. Before he signed on with the Phippses last November, Eddie worked mostly as a "public" trainer...
Game Plans. Training thoroughbreds, says Neloy, is much like coaching a football team: "Horses are athletes, the same as humans. The only difference is that humans talk. My job is to persuade the horses-or force them-to do their best." He regards jockeys as his "quarterbacks," and like any good football coach, he spends a lot of time working out his game plans...