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...favorite last night with the odds shortening hourly, Phalanx captured the Wood Memorial early this season and has since been enthusiastically compared with Whirlaway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boss's Son Heads For Derby Town, Bets on Phalanx | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...colonels grinned sheepishly. They could be pretty sure that crafty Ben Jones, the Calumet trainer, had things under control-even if he did come from Missouri. Ben's record proved conclusively that he knew how to saddle a Kentucky Derby winner: Lawrin (1938), Whirlaway (1941), Pensive (1944). Faultless was the Kentucky horse to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses to Beat | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Stymie's total: $516,285. The only horse ahead of him was Whirlaway, the all-time champion, who earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: $500,000 Stymie | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Classic Example | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...others: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Count Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All Three | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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