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...Whirlaway, $561,161; Seabiscuit, $437,730; Sun Beau, $376,744; Alsab, $350,015; Equipoise, $338,610; Challedon, $334,660; Phar Lap, $332,350; Gallant Fox, $328,165; Shut Out, $317,507; Busher...
...champion handicap horse of 1944 is a flop-eared tomboy that her friends call Susie. Many consider her the greatest filly ever to race in the U.S. Says Calumet Farm's Trainer Ben Jones: "Next to Whirlaway, this is the best horse I ever trained. She's so much better than Lawrin and Pensive [both Kentucky Derby winners]. So much, really." Last week at Baltimore, racing under her official program name, Twilight Tear, she made a rompaway of the winner-take-all ($25,000) Pimlico Special. It was her 14th win in 17 tries this year, and brought...
...Bigtime. Jones considers 1941 his best year, when he coaxed Warren Wright's stable (including Whirlaway) in to the greatest amount of money ever won by a single stable: $475,091. But although he will not admit it, Jones seems headed for even bigger things...
...Only other winners of the Derby-Preakness-Belmont Stakes Crown: Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway (Jones-coached), Count Fleet...
Pensive just missed being scratched. Only a fortnight ago, he had been beaten by a 30-to-1 outsider. But the veteran team of Trainer Ben Jones and Owner Warren Wright, who won the Kentucky Derby with Whirlaway in 1941, finally decided to race their chestnut colt. The decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager...