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Trainer Jones, 57, needs all the nickels and dimes he can get these days. Calumet, which bred two Triple Crown winners, Whirlaway and Citation, won the Kentucky Derby seven times,* more than any other stable in history, and swept the money-winning championship twelve times in 21 years, has not even entered a horse in the Derby since 1958. At Santa Anita, Hialeah and Belmont, Calumet's proud champions were once hailed as "the New York Yankees of horse racing." No more...
Last year, for example, Decidedly shattered Whirlaway's track record as he romped to a brilliant triumph in the Derby. He looked solid in the Preakness. Decidedly run eighth, beaten by 14 lengths. The same sort of let-down is going to happen to Chateaugay...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his third Kentucky Derby victory around his horse's head, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. ⅔ sec., and a new record, a full second better than the old mark set by Whirlaway in 1951, with Eddie Arcaro aboard...
...Aboard Whirlaway and Citation, Arcaro became the only jockey to win rac ing's famed Triple Crown* twice. He was a record five-time winner of the Derby. He posted six victories in the Preakness and six in the Belmont Stakes, for an other pair of records. Last year Arcaro rode Kelso, one of the greatest racers ever, to a Horse of the Year title, winning seven victories in nine starts to collect...
...collected his first Derby victory in 1938 on Lawrin, a 9-1 shot that Trainer Ben Jones thought almost too unsound to train. His second Derby victory was on Whirlaway in 1941, a chestnut colt that, for all its speed, had trouble taking a turn. Arcaro solved the problem by giving Whirlaway a long rein. And Trainer Jones helped out on Derby Day by cutting away the left cup of the colt's blinkers. The plan was to give Whirlaway full vision in his left eye so that he would naturally tend to follow the rail on turns. Recalls...