Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trainers who spun in & out of Arden's revolving door remarked recently: "Seems we spent more money for paint than for anything else." One capable trainer, grizzled Guy Bedwell, told her off before she had a chance to tell him. A half-dozen others came & went before Tom Smith came along...
Silent Tom. Many a millionaire has ransomed his kingdom for a race horse, and ended up with a big oat bill. The difference, in Millionaire Elizabeth Arden Graham's case, is that Tom Smith spent her gold and brought home silver cups. Tom Smith is a shortish, pale and poker-faced old codger nearing 70, who is less of a chatterbox than Calvin Coolidge. His silences awed the lady. He spends a lot of time just staring at his horses through wise eyes, and when he is through, a horse knows he has been cross-examined...
Owner Arden was soon convinced that Smith 1) wouldn't hurt her pets; 2) wouldn't gouge her; 3) knew horses. They got along as well as any employer and employe can when one of them is Elizabeth Arden Graham. She told him to get rid of Knockdown, a $2,000 ugly duckling, and Tom allowed he would-some day. She brought out her Ardena eye lotion for the horses' eyes, and Ardena "Eight-Hour Cream" for their chafed spots. Diplomat Tom used them; they didn't do a horse any harm...
...secret that Tom Smith has done the training for Elizabeth Arden Graham's Derby varsity-and with no violation of the law, so long as he disappeared when racing at Churchill Downs got officially under way last week. His 36-year-old son Jimmy took over the Maine Chance horses in California last winter, but old Tom was never far away. Asked if he saw Knockdown and Star Pilot run one-two in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby, Elizabeth Arden said: "Oh, course he [did] ... the old fellow wouldn't break a rule for the world...
...cerise, blue & white colors-and taking anxious side glances at such able rivals as speedy, pint-sized Rippey, big, brown Spy Song and the Calumet Farm's In Earnest (trained by Ben Jones, who delights in running an underdog to victory). And no one knew better than Tom Smith that an unsung hero might well cross the line ahead of them...