Word: neloy
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Died. Eddie Neloy, 50, one of the winningest trainers in horseracing history; of a heart attack; in Elmont, N.Y. At 14, Neloy ran away from the slums of Chicago's South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps...
Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million...