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Fortnight ago, aboard Capot in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Ted figured out just how to beat Eddie Arcaro (up on Olympia). He did, but Ben Jones's Ponder came up on the outside and beat them both (TIME...
...Good Run. In the paddock before the race, Jockey Brooks, who had never ridden Ponder, got a fill-in on his mount. Said Jones: "I don't think he'll win, but he'll beat more horses than beat him. He's slow to settle down to running and easy to knock off stride. He'll give you one good run when you ask for it." Ponder was the calmest of the 14 horses that paraded out to the tune of My Old Kentucky Home...
Capot pressed Olympia around the first turn. The first five furlongs were run in a sizzling 59 3/5 seconds. Halfway down the backstretch, Old Rockport began to sneak up on the rail. Ponder, after lagging along absolutely last, began to show signs of life when Jockey Brooks shook the stick at him "just to see what...
...charging down the center of the track. The devil's-red silks on his jockey were Calumet's. Ben Jones's long shot, at 16 to 1, caught tired Capot inside the Sixteenth Pole, and won by three lengths. With a pace-forcing assist from Capot, Ponder had won the Kentucky Derby in much the same way his sire, Pensive, had won it five years before-and in identical time...
After the race, the great crowd seemed stunned by the impact of a Jones-trained horse winning at such odds. Ben himself, more excited than after Citation's victory last year, forgot his limp as he hotfooted it down the track to meet Ponder jogging back to the presentation stand. The 66-year-old training wizard from Parnell, Mo., a genius at getting a horse ready for one big race, had the look of a man who had fooled even himself. Said little Conn McCreary, who finished fifth aboard Halt: "When the day comes around, he makes you look...